County: Laois Site name: Dunmore, Co. Laois
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR LA029-075LA029-035 Licence number: —
Author: —
Site type: Graves of indeterminate date
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 670842m, N 675640m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.860500, -7.370110
In January 1956 human remains were discovered in a sandpit on a farm near Durrow, Co. Laois.154 Two human skeletons were apparently discovered at a depth of 0.6m, one of which was apparently in a crouched position. The site was reported to the NMI by Mr James Deegan, Abbeyleix, and by the Garda Síochána. According to Mr Deegan, one of the burials (that of a child) was buried in a prone position, while the other, that of a female, was crouched. No further details are recorded, and the site was not investigated by Museum personnel.
154. Parish of Durrow or Abbeyleix, barony of Clarmallagh. SMR LA029-075——; exact location not marked. The SMR lists a church and graveyard in this townland (LA029-035——) but its location in relation to the burial is not known.
