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Children's burial ground in Carrownaseer North

Children's burial ground
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Immediately N and E of a church (GA005-035002-). Numerous small graves, oriented E-W, are visible, many with undressed head- and foot-stones. A small number of burials are also visible to SE. Two of the graves are marked by a reused cross-slab (GA005-035005-) and a tau cross (GA005-035006-) respectively. According to local information, the last interment took place here in the 1940s. (Higgins 1987, 318, 396, nos. 44, 16) 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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