What is recorded here

Grave Yard is a children's burial ground beside a Galway church where one slab still names a two-year-old infant. South stones align like rows of small beds while north stones scatter like forgotten markers. The drystone wall holds the oval shut, keeping the young dead close to the place where their families once prayed.

Surrounding a church (GA056-070001-). Oval area (N-S c. 19m, E-W 14.5m) defined along SW by a drystone wall. Within the interior, numerous set stones indicate graves. At N and E they are haphazardly arranged, but to S they run N-S, indicating graves oriented E-W. One inscribed slab, to E of the church, markers the grave of a two-year-old infant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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