What is recorded here

Boleynanollag holds a children's burial ground beside a holy well, marked by a white cross and haphazard stones. The mound survived neglect until people renovated it in 1989, planting shrubs around its edge. It is not grand, but it is clear: small lives were set down there, remembered through stone, wood and tenderness.

Some 8m to the E of a holy well (GA132-035----). According to local information, an oval mound (c. 12m N-S; H c. 0.8m) on which numerous set stones were haphazardly arranged is a children's burial ground (SMR file). The mound was renovated in 1989 and shrubs were planted around its perimeter. A large white wooden cross is set in a base of loose stones at its N end. This may be the burial ground which was recorded as 'Ahanass grave yard (Ath an easa) in Boolananollogue townland, (buáile na nollog)' in the Ordnance Survey Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. II, 517). This record was incorrectly numbered GA132-027002- in the RMP (1997). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 11 December 2019

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