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Childrens Burial Ground — Hundredacres (castleblakeney Ed)

Children's burial ground
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On a W-facing slope in flat grassland, c. 700m W of the village of Castleblakeney and c. 50m S of the td. boundary. An unenclosed rectangular area (N-S 26.5m, E-W 12m) within which numerous small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. To W of the CBG, an old trackway runs NE-SW. 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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