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Children's burial ground in Frenchpark,bredagh (kilconnell By.)

Children's burial ground

What is recorded here

No visible trace survives inside the ringfort, yet local tradition holds the ground as a children's burial place. The forgotten dead may still rest beneath ordinary soil, waiting for someone to stop and listen.
Within a ringfort (GA060-015----). According to local tradition, the interior of the monument was used as a CBG. 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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Recorded monument

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