Burial ground in Lambay Island — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Lambay Island, County Dublin, holds a quiet burial ground where stone-lined graves held Early Christian bodies. Men digging the foundation for the White House in the 1930s uncovered those extended inhumations, pulling ancient lives from beneath the soil before the garden took them back. The island keeps its dead patient and hidden, waiting for human hands to disturb the peace.

Extended inhumations of probable Early Christian date in stone-lined graves were found during the building of the White House south of the harbour in the 1930's (Cooney 1993, 27). Geophysical survey (Licence no. 12R078) of the White house garden was carried out by The Discovery Programme for the LIARI Project but did not identify anything of archaeological interest (Dowling 2014, 12). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 31 December 2014

Early Christian burial ground; dates to the 5th–9th century AD. Its significance lies in providing evidence of Christian settlement and funerary practices on Lambay Island during the early medieval period.

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