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Childrens Burial Gd. — Kilcornan (kilconnell By.)

Children's burial ground
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Within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA084-085003-). A roughly rectangular area (NE-SW < 24.8m, NW-SE < 9.5m) defined by a degraded scarp along SE, SW and NW sides, and by a field wall along NE side. Within the interior are a number of set stones indicating graves oriented NE-SW. Much of N sector is covered with rubble and boulders which obscure the grave-markers. 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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