What is recorded here

Children's burial ground in Letter More stands on a steep Galway hillslope, overlooking Ballynakill Harbour. The unenclosed Cillín holds small set stones across roughly nine by six metres, marking babies and young children buried before adult rules changed. Local people call it long disused, yet the stones still arrange themselves like a sentence written for the dead.

On steep hillslope, on N side of road, overlooking Ballynakill Harbour to S. Known locally as Cillín, it consists of an unenclosed area (c. 9.15m by c. 6.1m) bounded on S by the road. Numerous small set stones are visible in the interior. Long disused, according to local people (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. 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

Children's burial ground (cillín), likely 17th–19th century. It is significant as a site associated with the historical practice of burying unbaptised or stillborn children outside main Christian cemeteries.

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