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Grave Yard — Killafeen

Children's burial ground
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What is recorded here

On a low hill in pastureland. Described in the OS Letters as ‘a burying ground for children’ (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 629), it consists of a poorly preserved and densely overgrown D-shaped area (6.5m E-W; 5m N-S) within which a number of small set stones mark graves. A field wall defines is NW limits. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 August 2019

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