- Carton Demesne, Co. Kildare, Kildare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kildare Site name: Carton Demesne, Co. Kildare

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR KD006-019 Licence number:

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Site type: GRAVES OF INDETERMINATE DATE

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ITM: E 695827m, N 739343m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.395540, -6.559160

In 1978 the National Museum received notification that a number of human remains from Carton Demesne, Co. Kildare,122 were in the possession of the Yorkshire Museum, York. The remains consisted of the pelvic bone and leg bone of a male, apparently found in Carton on 6 September 1946. No information about the find circumstances is known, but the curator at the Yorkshire Museum thought that the remains possibly came to be there via a Mr Willmot. The remains were returned to the NMI (1978:1).

122. Parish of Caragh Bryan, barony of North Salt. SMR KD006-019——; the exact location is not known.