2008:136 - Quingardens, Clare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Clare Site name: Quingardens

Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL042–02703 AND CL042–02704 Licence number: C289; E3931; R120

Author: Edel Ruttle, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd, Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare.

Site type: Boundary ditch and skeletal remains

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 541713m, N 674540m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.818676, -8.864722

Testing in advance of the construction of an extension to the parochial hall located the probable earlier boundary ditch of St Fineen’s graveyard and examined the skeletal remains of a least two persons buried at the earliest in the 16th century.