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Children's burial ground in Bullaun (clare By.)

Children's burial ground

What is recorded here

No visible surface trace survives, yet the children's burial ground still occupies the heart of the Bullaun ringfort. Local memory calls the interior a lisheen, suggesting the dead did not leave when the living stopped visiting. The absent markers do not erase the purpose; they redirect attention inward, where the smallest lives were still considered large enough to deserve a separate ground.
Within a ringfort (GA057-050----). According to local information, the interior was used as a 'lisheen'. No visible surface trace survives. 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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