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Graveyard in Kilkere

Graveyard

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Kilkere holds a graveyard immediately west of a possible church where bones emerged during the erection of an electricity pole in 1990. The discovery suggests people died and were buried beside a worship place long before modern wires cut the sky. What is certain is only the chamber, the pole and the bones; what is probable is that ordinary life still touched this quiet ground.
Immediately W of a possible church (SL041-031001-). According to local information, bones were found here during the erection of an electricity pole in 1990. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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