County: Limerick Site name: Glenogra, Co. Limerick
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR LI031-227 Licence number: —
Author: —
Site type: Graves of indeterminate date
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 563744m, N 664426m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.729710, -8.536780
In January 1961 human remains were discovered during quarrying operations in a sandpit at Glenogra, near Croom, Co. Limerick.168 The remains were apparently reinterred before they were reported to the NMI by Donncadh Ó Briain, TD. This report is therefore based on an account by Garda Denis Sullivan of Ballyneety Garda Station. The remains were found at a depth of c. 0.9m and apparently consisted of five individuals, extended and articulated. The bodies had been placed close together and parallel to each other and there was no trace of coffins or stone protection around the burials. Neither did there appear to be a change in the colour of the soil in the area of the burials. A number of sites are listed in the SMR in this townland, including a church and graveyard, castle, bawn, mill and various enclosures. The burials cannot be definitively associated with any site, however, owing to the fact that the location is not marked. The landowner reinterred the burials without informing the Gardaí and did not subsequently use the sandpit.
168. Parish of Glenogra, barony of Smallcounty. SMR LI031-227——.
