What is recorded here

An Mhuiríoch is a forgotten burial ground where four lintel graves lay hidden in sea sand until house builders broke the surface in September 1948. The dead stretched west-east with their heads toward the setting sun, three clustered together and one slightly apart. They had waited patiently beneath the shifting beach, unchanged since before memory, until ordinary labour revealed what the tide and time had concealed.

In September 1948, four lintel graves (c. L 2m; Wth 0.75m) were discovered during the construction of a new house in Murreagh village. The burials were at a depth of c. 1m below ground surface, in sea sand. The burials, occuring in a group of three with one a few metres south, were all extended and aligned west-east, with the head to west. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 47-48) Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 28 January 2013

Lintel graves, likely dating to the Early Christian period, possibly 6th–9th century AD. These burials are significant as rare examples of early Christian funerary structures in a coastal setting, potentially linked to a local monastic or settlement site.

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