What is recorded here

An Caiseal holds a children's burial ground, though no visible marker remains to confirm the shape of that loss. The land may have swallowed small bodies during fevers, births or wars, leaving only a depressed patch of grass where the soil feels slightly different underfoot. People avoid joking near that spot because childhood death removes every excuse for cruelty. What is missing is not an absence of archive but a refusal to force the dead into human categories.

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