What is recorded here

Burial in Milltown (athlone South By.) is a burial in Milltown (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. A second or third-hand story claims a skeleton clutching a sword under a flag appeared there around 1870. The account probably identifies the local headstone rather than a separate lost burial.

There is a second or third-hand story of the finding of a skeleton clutching a sword under a flag in this townland of Milltown around 1870 (NMI file, 1964). This probably refers to the headstone (RO047-091----) but otherwise it was not encountered. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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