What is recorded here
Under the Castletown soil, forgotten bodies wait for the patience of living people. They are not lost, only unfinished, held in darkness until curiosity breaks the ground and gives them back.
An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, 465.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 17 August 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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