What is recorded here

Children's burial ground in Tonroe (clare By.) stands within a ringfort in County Galway, Ireland. Local tradition claims children were buried there, though no visible surface trace survives. The lost bodies may have rested beneath ordinary soil while adults walked past, unaware that small hands and lungs had stopped moving inside the earth.

Within a ringfort (GA042-220----). According to local tradition, there was a CBG here but 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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