Burial in Ballymullen, County Laois

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What is recorded here

Two skeletons were discovered while digging for gravel. One was an extended inhumation of a young adult, aligned E-W, found 0.3m below present ground level. The hands were crossed over the left hip-bone and the feet appeared to have been tied together. No evidence of a burial mound or grave goods (OPW file).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA030-005

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Maker not stated on source page, curiousireland.ie
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A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC0
Denis Byrne / Laois Nationalist; named in photograph caption, www.laois-nationalist.ie

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