Burial in Corballis (nethercross By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Young bones crossed a chest beneath a palm-sized limestone pebble, buried on a shifting sandbar where the sea still erases the edge of Malahide Island. The girl or boy lay facing northwest with one arm stretched out and the other folded across the ribs, perhaps marked by age, affection or warning. Hartnett opened that narrow grave in 1950, but the beach has since taken back much of the place where the markers and memories disappeared.

Situated on the W side of Malahide Island, a sandbar 400m E of the Malahide coastline. In 1950 P. J. Hartnett excavated an extended inhumation burial with some irregular stones covering the body. The grave was orientated NW-SE. Remains were accompanied by a rounded limestone pebble (Diam. 0.25m). Hartnett compared this pebble to a granite pebble found by him possibly accompanying a crouched inhumation at Hempstown Commons, Co. Kildare (Hartnett 1950, 197). The articulated body was extended on its back in a NW-SE direction with the head to the NW. The left forearm lay across the chest with the hand resting on the right shoulder and the right arm was fully extended at the side with the hand underneath the right hip. A brief report on the teeth suggest that the individual was twelve to sixteen years old (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 324-325). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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