What is recorded here
Carricknahorna West nunnery in County Sligo, Ireland, is a graveyard where human bones appeared during construction of an outbuilding. The site belongs to a place where death and memory still shape the land. It may have marked a life, a loss or a forgotten ceremony, and that uncertainty keeps the graveyard alive in the imagination.
According to local information, human bones were found within Carricknahorna West nunnery (SL040-186001-) during the construction of an outbuilding.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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