What is recorded here

Old Grave Yard is a children's burial ground in County Galway, Ireland, holding three parallel rows of small undressed stones beneath an open sky. It lies sixteen paces from a holy well and fifty paces from a church, small enough that every child had room to be remembered without competing for space. The stones are irregular and unmarked, yet their repeated alignment suggests someone kept returning to place each new body with care.

Some 15m to the SW of a holy well (GA114-066004-). This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed subrectangular area (c. 14m E-W; 6m N-S). The W half had been cleared revealing three parallel rows of small undressed irregularly spaced set stones indicating graves aligned E-W. A church (GA114-066001-) lay c. 48m to the NNW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 August 2019

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