Burial ground in Lambay Island — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Lambay Island holds a burial ground where five young men and an adolescent bled into the earth around 1500 AD. They fell together, perhaps in a storm or a fight, while one other person lay alone nearby with a fragment of cloth and an iron rivet cap beside the bones. The sea kept their names but the isle kept their shape, waiting for human hands to ask what happened.

In the SW point of Lambay Island excavations in 1995 revealed a multiple grave containing five young adult males and an adolscent dating to c. 1500 AD (Cooney 1996, 25-26). Further investigations in 2002 indicated a second grave. This contained an intact, extended E-W inhumation. A fragment of textile and an iron rivet cap were found adjacent to the lower right limb bones (Cooney 2003, 170-171). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 31 December 2014

A 16th-century multiple burial site; significant for its unusual assemblage of young adult males and an adolescent, offering insights into early modern funerary practices and social structures in Ireland.

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