County: Donegal Site name: Craghy, Co. Donegal
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: —
Site type: GRAVES OF INDETERMINATE DATE
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 604864m, N 909421m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.932480, -7.924100
In June 1978 turf-cutting operations uncovered a human body in a bog at Craghy, near Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.61 The body was discovered at a depth of approximately 1m under virgin bog. It was reported to the Gardaí at Milford, who informed the NMI. The body was found in a crouched position and there appeared to be traces of clothing and a rope. The body was examined by Dr McFeely of Letterkenny but was subsequently reinterred along with the textile and rope. No other details are recorded.
61. Parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan. OS 6in. sheets 51, 52 and 60; the exact location of the find is not marked
