What is recorded here

Grave Yard occupies the north half of a ring-barrow in County Galway, where small upright stones still mark children's burials. The ancient mound was probably reused for this sorrowful purpose, giving the place a layered identity. It is not a grand monument but a quiet cluster of markers inside an older earthwork, suggesting that grief returned to the same ground across different times.

Within the N half of the interior of a ring-barrow (GA095-087----). McCaffrey (1952, 36-7) recorded a 'number of small stones serving as markers for modern graves' or 'children's burials'. Several upright limestone boulders are visible but no particular alignment is discernible. The ring-barrow was probably reused as a children's burial ground. (Killanin and Duignan 1969, 395) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 August 2019

A Neolithic ring-barrow with later interments; significant for its reuse in modern or historic times for children's burials.

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