What is recorded here

Knappoge in County Longford hid its dead until quarrying tools broke the silence in 1969. The bones emerged over several days, were reburied ninety centimetres beneath the soil, and vanished again without witness, marker or memory. Whoever they were, they resisted even discovery, leaving behind only the shape of a hole and the certainty that someone once belonged there.

Human remains were discovered during quarrying operations in 1969. The remains, found over a number of days, were reburied at a depth of approx. 0.90m below ground level. No details are known of the number or disposition of the burials and there is no record of any associated artifacts or structural stones surrounding them. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, ii, 494-5) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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