What is recorded here

Lisgauran Childrens Burial Ground is a small unenclosed square of shapeless stones beside a Galway stream, marking graves where children were laid to rest until 1945. The plain rocks still align north-south across east-west burials, preserving a intimate local practice without grand ornament. A nearby holy well deepens the sense that this quiet pasture served life and death alike.

Close to N bank of a stream in rolling pastureland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a small roughly rectangular area and recorded in OS Letters as 'a burying place for children ... called Lios gárán, Lissgauraun' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1 26). All that survives is an unenclosed roughly square area (L/Wth 9.5m) within which a few rows of shapeless set stones, aligned N-S, indicate graves oriented E-W. According to local information, the last burial took place in 1945. A holy well (GA029-060002-) is associated; see also GA029-060---- The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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