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Childrens Burial Ground

Children's burial ground

What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground occupies the heart of a rath on the eastern edge of a slight plateau in County Roscommon. Its rectangular mound measures ten point seven metres north-south and five point five metres east-west, rising only twenty to forty centimetres above the ground. Stones still cover the surface, marking a place where young lives may have been returned to the earth before the wider village claimed them.
At the E edge of a slight plateau. This is a rectangular, stone-covered mound (dims 10.7m N-S; 5.5m; H 0.2-0.4m) at the centre of rath (RO050-018002-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Childrens Burial Ground, Camlagh is a rectangular, stone-covered mound, likely a cist or small burial monument, possibly dating to the Early Christian or medieval period. Its location within a rath suggests a possible funerary or ceremonial function associated with a settlement.

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