Burial in Ballymacus, County Cork

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What is recorded here

Windele (1853, 230-231) describes flat cemetery of rectangular (5 - 51/2ft x 2ft; D 12ft 18in) slab-lined cists, covered with 'rude flagstones'; long axis NW-SE; only fragments of human bones and teeth survived, in brittle condition. Five graves caused to be opened on Windele visit. Field known locally as 'Park na Killa'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO125-023

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