What is recorded here

Grave Yard was a children's burial ground on the north side of an east-west road along an esker in County Galway. It appeared as an unenclosed L-shaped area on early maps, became enclosed by 1933, and measured about thirty metres across. No surface trace survives now, though a holy well lay one hundred and eighty metres to the west. The children may have been laid near water and road traffic, their small graves hidden beneath grass and time.

On N side of a road which runs E-W along an esker. Indicated on OS 1st ed. as a roughly L-shaped unenclosed area marked simply as 'Graveyard'. Apparently enclosed by time of 3rd ed. (1933), when it appears as an irregular area (L/Wth c. 30m) and is named as a CBG. No visible surface trace survives. A holy well (GA068-049----) lay c. 180m to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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