What is recorded here

Beneath the north wall of Kilruddery House, where the clock still ticks, lie bones pulled from the earth in 1820 and buried again without ceremony. The Earl of Meath was building a new house when his men struck the dead, and the dead were returned to the same spot like a mistake corrected rather than a life honoured. No church mark remains to tell them apart from soil, only the house standing above them and the clock measuring hours they no longer keep.

The Ordnance Survey Letters (1838/40) note 'There is no account of the particular spot on which the church of Kilruddery stood, but it is remembered that in the year 1820 when the Earl of Meath pulled down the old house and built the present, great quantities of human bones were found at the north side of the house, where the clock is now up; and that they were all put down together again in the same spot.' (O'Flanagan 1928, 35) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 01 February 2013

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