What is recorded here

Ardranny More holds a buried row of skeletons aligned north-south, head to toe, waiting beneath an ordinary house. They appeared during a cable trench in 1991, yet official hands did not touch them for years. The dead kept their position while people argued, forgot or left the site alone. They are still there, patient under the soil, refusing to become a specimen or a story.

In 1991 human remains were discovered while digging a trench for an electrical cable at a dwelling house in the townland of Ardranny More, near Kiltormer, Co. Galway. The find was reported to the local Gardaí but the remains were not removed, nor was the site reported to the NMI. In 1994, the landowner reported the discovery of the skeletons to Professor Etienne Rynne and described them as being aligned north-south, arranged 'head to toe'. No structural stones were found in the vicinity of the burials, nor were there any associated artefacts. Professor Rynne reported the find to the NMI, who contacted the finder. The site was not investigated (pers comm. M. Sikora and M. Cahill, NMI).

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