1991:2010 - Donadea, near, Co. Kildare, Kildare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kildare Site name: Donadea, near, Co. Kildare

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMRKD009-036 Licence number:

Author:

Site type: GRAVES OF INDETERMINATE DATE

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 682790m, N 734080m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.350460, -6.756500

In January 1991 human remains were discovered during turf-cutting in a bog at Donadea, Co. Kildare.124 The bone was found at a depth of approximately 0.9m below ground level. No further details as to the disposition of the remains are known, but the bone was identified as the left femur of an adult (1999:223).

124. The townland may be Donadea North or South, parish of Donadea, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany. SMR KD009-036——; the exact location is not marked.