What is recorded here

Five hundred metres north of Menlough, a slight rise in grassland marks a children's burial ground where small bodies once rested without stone or fence. The earth holds its quiet charge on a west-facing slope, untouched for decades yet still belonging to the dead. What was buried there cannot be read or measured, only witnessed in the shape of the ground itself.

On a W-facing slope, in grassland, c. 500m N of the village of Menlough and c. 80m E of a road which forms the td. boundary. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1927) as a small unenclosed circular area (D c. 15m). All that is visible is a slight rise in ground level. No grave-markers are evident. According to local information, the CBG has not been used in the last 85 years. 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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