What is recorded here

Carton Demesne holds a buried man whose pelvic and leg bones left Ireland in 1946 and reappeared in York thirty-two years later. They may have travelled through a Mr. Willmot, perhaps taken as a curiosity rather than a person, until the National Museum of Ireland called them home. The exact spot is forgotten, but the bones completed a long journey back to the soil that first gave them up.

In 1978, the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) was notified that human remains from Carton Demesne were in the possession of the Yorkshire Museum, York, England. The remains comprised the pelvic bone and leg bone of a male and were apparently found on Sept. 6th, 1946. While the precise location of the burial is unknown, the remains may have reached York via a Mr. Willmot. The remains (1978:1) were returned to the NMI. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 2, 482) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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