County: Dublin Site name: Palmerston Lower, Co. Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR DU017-026002 Licence number: —
Author: —
Site type: GRAVES OF INDETERMINATE DATE
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 716068m, N 731132m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.317720, -6.257980
In May 1955 human remains were discovered during construction work at Palmerston Lower, near Lucan, Co. Dublin.86 According to the Garda report, the site was a pasture field that bordered a disused walled cemetery at a distance of less than 45m. A number of human skulls, one with a possible trephination, and a number of other bones were recovered at a depth of 0.6–0.9m below ground level.87 The bones were examined by the deputy coroner, Dr J. O’Gorman, who stated that they might have been buried for ‘upwards of ’ 100 years, and arranged to have them reinterred at Glasnevin cemetery. As the discovery was not reported to the National Museum until after this time, it was not investigated by Museum personnel.
86.Parish of Palmerston, barony of Uppercross. OS 6in. sheets 17, 18. The exact location of the site is not marked, but it may be associated with a cemetery at Palmerston Lower, SMR DU017-026002-.
87. The feature is described as ‘a hole about 1 ⁄2 inch in diameter’.
