What is recorded here

Half a kilometre from the sea, a small wedge of grass holds the graves of children who died before they could be named. One stone still carries a date and an age of two years, while the others have lost their words to rain and moss. The row runs east to west, pointing every body toward the rising sun.

In level grassland adjacent to a road. This poorly preserved and much-overgrown wedge-shaped children's burial ground (L 25m; Wth 14.5m) is defined by tentative traces of a bank along the S side. Within it numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 August 2019

Wedge tomb; likely dates to the Bronze Age. It represents a children's burial ground, indicating specialized funerary practices for the young in the ancient community.

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