Burial in Ballinure

A human skeleton and some horse bones along with six Elizabethan coins were uncovered by County Council workmen in 1947 when removing soil from a stone quarry in Ballinure (Kenny 1983-4, 111-13). The coins ranged in date from 1567-1590. The location of this burial is unknown within Ballinure townland. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

A human burial with associated horse bones and Elizabethan coins, likely a 16th-century interment; its significance lies in the rare association of post-medieval coinage with animal and human remains, suggesting possible ritual or symbolic deposition.