- Churchtown, Co. Wexford, Wexford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wexford Site name: Churchtown, Co. Wexford

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR WX054-016 Licence number:

Author:

Site type: Graves ofindeterminate date

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 712803m, N 605476m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.189537, -6.350177

In October 1932 the National Museum received a report that ‘crude stone enclosures containing human skeletons’ had been exposed through coastal erosion at Hook Point, townland of Churchtown, Co. Wexford.303 The remains lay approximately 0.6m below ground level. Revd Doyle describes how the graves ‘give the appearance of a crude coffin’, and describes the capstone resting on the two edge-set side slabs. He then states, however, that they were ‘not the stereotype stone coffin one finds in old monastic cemeteries’. The site does not appear to have been investigated, and the remains were not acquired.

303. Parish of Hook, barony of Shelbourne. SMR WX054-016——. Unfortunately the exact location of the cists is not known.