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Burial in Cooltoran

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Human bones were discovered when a bank collapsed durin work in a sand-pit, no trace of a cist or pottery was uncovered. Unlocated burials found in 1952 in quarrying of a sand pit in the townland of Cooltoran (OPW file), the burials were at a depth of c. 2m feet below the surface of the ground.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA013-075

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