What is recorded here

Graves is a children's burial ground in County Galway, Ireland. It occupies a small rectangular platform measuring 6.2 by 5.3 metres within gently undulating pastureland. Loose stones scattered across the interior may be displaced grave markers, waiting for someone to remember the names hidden beneath them.

In gently undulating pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as an unenclosed circular area (diam. < 10m), this children's burial ground is defined by a poorly preserved unenclosed subrectangular platform (L 6.2m; Wth 5.3m). Some 3m to its W a degraded scarp may have formed its original limits. The interior is filled with loose stones, possibly displaced grave-markers. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 August 2019

Children's burial ground, likely medieval in date, significant as a rare example of a dedicated site for infant or child burials in the landscape. Its simple subrectangular platform suggests a local or community-based funerary tradition.

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