What is recorded here
Killaghaun Burial Ground is a children's grave field on a Galway grassland rise, its rectangular edge marked by a scarp and its interior scattered with set stones aligned east to west. The small size of the graves suggests infants and young children, while the repeated east-west direction points to a community that kept laying its dead out the same way for generations. The land still holds that rhythm: a narrow band of loss, repeated until it became a shape the eye could read.
On a rise in grassland. This children's burial ground, rectangular in plan (L 19m; Wth 14.5m), is defined by a scarp. Within the interior numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
A rectangular children's burial ground, likely dating to the Early Christian period, with east-west aligned graves; its function and significance suggest a local cemetery associated with an early monastic or rural settlement.
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- What survives
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