Kilnabasty, children's burial ground in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In undulating grassland adjacent to a spring well. This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed rectangular area (L 10.3m; Wth 9.7m) within which numerous haphazardly set stones mark graves.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA105-083

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