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Grave Yard

Children's burial ground

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Grave Yard is a children's burial ground immediately south of a church in County Galway, Ireland. Small set stones mark east-west burials within a roughly rectangular area bounded on the west by a field wall. Local information says the last burial happened around 1950, leaving the place quiet but still shaped by loss.
Immediately to the S of a church (GA114-069001-). A roughly rectangular area (10m E-W; 7m N-S) is defined along the W side by a field wall; elsewhere no visble trace of an enclosing element survives. Within the interior a number of small set stones indicate burials aligned E-W. According to local information, the last burial took place around 1950. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 June 2017

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