What is recorded here

Knockaunaphaustia is a children’s burial ground on a Galway headland where small boulders still mark graves beneath the wind. The site has been known locally as Horn graveyard, and even in the twentieth century people laid the dead there with cement crosses and headstones decorated with sea shells. It is not a grand monument but a quiet edge of the coast, where the living kept returning to honour the young and the sea kept taking them back.

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. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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