What is recorded here
This record refers to a human skull, which was found in 1933 in a rabbit burrow adjacent to a railway boundary wall along the sea shore on the outskirts of Killala town. The burial was not investigated and its exact location was not recorded (SMR file: NMI topographical files and finds register 1933:1232).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 May 2019
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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