What is recorded here

Twenty feet beneath the grass of Rathmore motte, a five-foot stone cist held one dead person while animal bones scattered beside the chamber. Gravel diggers breached that quiet depth in 1894, dragging ancient breath back into the light only moments before the earth swallowed the memory again.

Discovered in the late-19th century during gravel extraction at Rathmore motte (KD020-009004-) and recorded by the Earl of Mayo (1896-98, 113-14). In 1893 several skeletons were found 'buried inside a ring of roundish undressed limestones' near the base of the bank of the motte. In 1894 a long stone cist, five feet long, eighteen inches wide and eighteen inches deep, was found 'exactly 20 feet' below the present grass-grown surface of the (motte); it contained a single inhumation. Antler, cattle, sheep and pig bones were found at the same level as the cist. (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 4, 432) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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