What is recorded here

Infants Burial Gd. is a children's grave inside an old church fence in County Galway. It still holds small upright stones and one roofed grave, though grass and forgetfulness have buried most of its shape. The dead were likely babies or young children, placed together because they belonged to the same community and the same time. What is gone is not the stones but the lives that gave the stones meaning.

In E part of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA054-039001-). Indicated on 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1899) as an unenclosed roughly D-shaped area (L/Wth c. 20m). What survives is a completely overgrown low platform within which numerous small upright stones are visible, including a lintelled grave at W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Early Christian burial platform, 6th–8th century. Associated with a monastic site, it reflects the religious and funerary practices of the period.

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