What is recorded here

Infants Burial Gd. is a children's burial ground in County Galway, Ireland. A small hollow holds a triangular ridge and furrow plot where white quartz pebbles outline graves beneath a streamlet. Some accounts claim Famine victims also rest there, blending childhood and catastrophe in one quiet earth.

In a small hollow by a streamlet just above shoreline. Known locally as Lios or Cillín (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of an unenclosed triangular ridge and furrow plot (N-S 20m; E-W 27m) overlain by burials. The latter are marked by numerous small set stones, some with head- and foot-stones, aligned roughly E-W. A number of graves are outlined by water-rolled white quartz pebbles. It is said that Famine victims were also buried here (ibid.). 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, Mullaghglass is a *cillín* (a small, often unenclosed burial site for unbaptised children or stillborn infants), likely dating to the early Christian period or later medieval times. Its significance lies in reflecting local burial practices and religious beliefs concerning the afterlife for infants in Irish tradition.

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