County: Mayo Site name: Knockagreenaun, Co. Mayo
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR MA089-070 Licence number: —
Author: —
Site type: Graves of indeterminate date
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 516617m, N 783398m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.793461, -9.265550
In the spring of 1937 possible human remains were discovered during road-widening works at Knockagreenaun, near Castlebar, Co. Mayo.191 According to the Garda report, the ground at this particular place was approximately 0.45m higher than the surrounding area. When this raised area was dug, it was found to contain more sand and water than the rest of the area, and when levelled ‘five or six’ bones were found. The remains were all fragmentary, the longest portion measuring c. 0.2m long. The site was visited by Revd James Jennings of Errew Monastery, who thought that the bones were probably animal and arranged to have them reburied at the roadside. There was no evidence of grave structure; rather the site appears to have been a circular depression or pit approximately 0.9m in depth.
191 Parish of Ballyhean, barony of Carra. OS 6in. sheet 89. SMR MA089-070——.
