What is recorded here

Infants Burial Gd. is a children's burial ground in County Galway, Ireland. It occupies a rough rectangle on sandy pasture near the shore, marked by small stones outlining narrow east-west plots. The site preserves a quiet tragedy, where tiny graves cluster together beneath the open sky.

On sandy pasture c. 25m NW of point where the td. boundary meets the shore. An unenclosed roughly rectangular area (L 17m, Wth 13.5m), within which small set stones are visible, some outlining small rectangular grave-plots (L 1.1-2.2m, Wth c. 0.65m) aligned E-W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

A Neolithic burial site, likely a cist or simple stone grave, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its small scale and isolated location suggest it may be part of a wider but now dispersed funerary landscape along the coast.

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