Burial in Barnankile, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

In 1643 when a party of Royalists under Sir Charles Vavasour was scouring the coutryside east of the Comeragh and Monavullagh mountains, they encountered a trench that was defended by a party from Barnakille castle (WA023-011001-). The dead from this skirmish are said to have numbered 800 and to have been buried where they fell, in a the fields SW of the castle (Anon 1906, 73-4). Such burials remain unlocated. Anon. (1906) Battle of Comeragh Mountain 1643, WAJ 9, 73-9.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA023-040

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