What is recorded here

Lisín na bPáistí is a children's burial ground in County Galway, marked disused on a 1933 map yet still holding a circular drystone boundary. The wall may be modern, but the choice of a separate place for children is not new. Scrub and forgotten shape have taken back most of what the wall once kept distinct.

In an area of scrubland c. 700m E of Gortaghokera house cluster. This CBG, correctly Lisín na bPáistí, is also labelled 'Disused' on 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933). It consists of a subcircular area (D c. 25m) defined by a modern drystone wall. No headstones were visible but the interior is heavily overgrown. 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

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period. Its location and form suggest it was part of a broader ritual landscape, though its specific significance remains poorly documented.

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