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Knockaunaphaustia

Children's burial ground
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On a small headland at S end of a sandy beach. Known locally as Horn graveyard, it consists of an irregularly shaped walled graveyard (E-W 80m, N-S 40m max.) within which many small set boulders are visible. A number of 20th-C graves are present in E half, marked by cement crosses and modern headstones decorated with sea shells. This CBG also extends on to OS 6-inch sheet 62 (SMR GA062-002----). A midden (GA049-023002-) is associated with it. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA049-023001

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  • Jonathan Wilkins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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