What is recorded here

Half a metre of raised earth beside a ruined church wall in County Mayo holds small upright stones in faded rows, a children's burial ground where the grass still covers what the field wall cannot keep hidden. The platform abuts the south wall of the ruined rectangular church, its north edge crossed by the same E-W wall that now incorporates the church, while a slumped stony scarp marks the other sides and a low break opens at the centre of the south. To walk past is to pretend the rows are not there; to stop is to admit that even a child's grave can outlast the hand that set it.

In undulating pasture, on a low rise. Ground dips gently to E towards a roughly N−S stream/drain. A rectangular earthen platform (12m E–W; 6m N–S; H 0.6m) abuts the S wall of a ruined rectangular church (MA103-008001-). The N side of the platform is crossed by an E-W field wall, which incorporates the S wall of the church. The platform is defined on the other three sides by a slumped, sod-covered stony scarp (H 0.6m), with a dilapidated break/low area in the centre of the S side. Many low, uninscribed upright stone gravemarkers, some arranged in N−S rows, protrude from the surface of the platform, interspersed with occasional small recumbent slabs. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 October 2022

A rectangular earthen platform adjacent to a ruined church, likely medieval in date; its function as a burial ground suggests a possible ecclesiastical or monastic association.

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