What is recorded here

Infants Burial Ground in County Galway holds rows of small stones and one large slab naming two Peirse children lost in 1806 and 1807. Local tradition says people continued laying babies to rest there until about 1962, turning a quiet hill shoulder into a long chamber for family grief. The field boundary marks its north edge, but the stones themselves keep the shape of love and loss.

In pastureland on the N shoulder of a low hill. This well-preserved roughly D-shaped children's burial ground (18m E-W; 14.5m N-S) is unenclosed apart from an ENE-WSW running field boundary which forms its N limits. Numerous small set stones, marking graves, run in roughly N-S rows. There is also a large quantity of loose stones. One large inscribed slab (H 1.09m; Wth 0.51m) is dedicated to two infants of the Peirse family who died 1806 and 1807. According to local information, the burial ground was in use up to c. 1962. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 August 2019

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