What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Mayo, Ireland is a children's burial ground. It is not clear when the smallest victims died or whose hands dug the holes, but the separation from adult death suggests a time when fever or birth took more children than old age took elders. The land still holds that loss, waiting for someone to walk its edge and remember that childhood ends without warning.

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