What is recorded here

Knockalaghta Grave Yard is a children's burial ground on a Galway hillcrest, where small stones still poke through heather in a narrow north-south line. The place sits above bogland and a stream, exposing the quiet tragedy of infants buried together instead of scattered across a larger churchyard. Its size is modest, yet the arrangement suggests repeated loss and careful return to the same ground.

On the crest of a locally prominent hill overlooking bogland and a small stream to the S. Marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular unenclosed area (c. 12m N-S). It consists of an irregularly shaped unenclosed area (L 7.6m; Wth 4.3m) within which small set stones, projecting through the heather, indicate graves aligned N-S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 August 2019

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