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Grave Yard

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Grave Yard in County Galway holds small uninscribed stones aligned east-west across undulating grassland, suggesting a children's burial ground rather than a grand adult cemetery. The western edge still hints at a low earth bank, maybe a forgotten field boundary, while the north-west sector remains the densest cluster of marked loss. Poverty of preservation does not diminish the clarity of the pattern: many small lives, laid out together, waiting beneath open sky.
In an area of undulating grassland and rock outcrop. This poorly preserved unenclosed burial ground is roughly subrectangular (35m N-S; 30m E-W) in plan. Slight traces of a low bank of earth and stone at W may be the remains of a N-S running field boundary. Burials are concentrated in the NW sector, where numerous small uninscribed set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. Possibly a children's burial ground. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 16 March 2020

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