What is recorded here

Lishoenbaun was a children's burial ground in undulating Galway grassland, marked on a 1932 map as an eight-metre circle but now without visible trace. Local memory holds that stones once edged a nine-yard square where young bodies rested beneath overgrowth, yet nobody remembered when the last child was laid to earth. The land keeps that absence intact: a small disk of grass where joy and loss both disappeared before anyone could name them.

In undulating grassland. This CBG is indicated on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a small unenclosed circular area (D c. 8m). No visible surface trace survives. According to local tradition, it was an area 'nine yards square' (8.2m) with stones set around the edge and the interior was overgrown; it was known as a children's burial place, though no one remembered when it was last used. 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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