What is recorded here

Infants Burial Gd. is a children's burial ground on a north-facing hillslope in County Galway, Ireland. The oval measure is twelve metres north-south and seventeen and a half metres east-west. A low curving bank of earth and stone marks the north edge, with traces still visible at the west. Small set stones scatter the interior, including a rough circular arrangement just inside the north bank. The place overlooks the coast, where child deaths once led families to this quiet slope instead of a distant churchyard.

On a N-facing hillslope overlooking coast. Known locally as 'Cliabh Cillín', it consists of a roughly oval area (N-S 12m, E-W 17.5m) delimited on N side by a low curving bank of earth and stone, traces of which are also visible at W, elsewhere by modern field boundaries. Numerous small set stones are visible in the interior, including a roughly circular setting of stones just inside the bank at N. 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

Infants Burial Ground, Lettergesh East is a medieval cillín, a type of small, often unmarked burial site used for the interment of unbaptized or stillborn children. Its significance lies in reflecting early Christian burial practices and local traditions of infant commemoration in Ireland.

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