County: Laois Site name: Kyle, Co. Laois
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR LA019-078 Licence number: —
Author: —
Site type: Graves of indeterminate date
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 255084m, N 691451m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.805500, -7.626660
In May 1956 human remains were discovered following a collapse at a sandpit at Kyle, near Timahoe, Co. Laois.156 According to the workers in the sandpit, a human skull and some bones were noted, but no grave-goods or structural stones were noted in the vicinity. The site was not investigated and the remains were not acquired. The precise location of the sandpit was not recorded.
156. Parish of Fossy or Cullenagh, barony of Timahoe. SMR LA019-078——. The exact find-spot is not marked, but on the second edition Ordnance Survey map a sandpit is marked in the townland of Kyle, at approximately IGR 255084 691451.
