What is recorded here

Ballyargus Children's Burial Ground occupies a grazing field above the Drung river where a quarried rock ridge mimics a defensive fosse. Small stones marked child graves beside the surviving earthen bank, while cattle now graze the exact place where infants were laid to rest. The land slopes toward Lough Foyle, carrying childhood death and ordinary farm life within the same view.

Originally a circular area (DG031-001001-), now bisected by a field boundary with the enclosing earthen bank built on a rock base, surviving NW of the boundary up to .7m in height. Very faint traces of the remainder can be seen SE of the field boundary. To the N and W of the bank a ridge of rock outcrop has been quarried within memory, giving the appearance of a fosse and an outer defense. The area to the N was used as a 'Children's Burial Ground' and some small stones are believed to be grave markers. Otherwise, the site is located in a grazing field sloping SW to the Drung river with good views over Lough Foyle. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

A Neolithic ring barrow or burial mound; significance not well established due to incomplete survival.

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