What is recorded here

Drumdutton Children's Burial Ground is an oval enclosure about eight metres long and four metres wide, hidden on the south side of a rock mound in County Donegal. Its collapsed drystone wall has surrendered to grass and time, yet the shape remains clear enough to suggest intention rather than chance. Children may have been laid to rest there before adult graves claimed wider fields, their small bodies returning first to the soil that fed the herds above. The mound still stands like a shoulder bent under memory, waiting for someone to notice the difference between empty ground and kept ground.

Marked as a 'Children's Burial Ground' on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. The site consists of an oval enclosure c. 8m N-S and c. 4m E-W surrounded by a collapsed and overgrown drystone wall. It is situated on the S side of a large mound of rock outcrop in grazing land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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