What is recorded here

Acragar held a buried life inside a sand ridge, waiting for hands busy enough to break the quiet. When sand left the ground between 1890 and 1900, bones and a skull appeared with two small food vessels, then crumbled or broke under the sudden handling. The dead person may have been placed there during ordinary work, believed visible in the shape of the ridge long before the ridge gave up its secret.

Unlocated burial within townland, described by Helen Roe in her gazeteer of Finds, Monuments of County Laois as an 'Inhumation in sand ridge. Some bones and the skull were found when removing sand together with two small pots from the description food vessels. The bones crumbled when disturbed and then pots got "broken up". Found about 1890-1900. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

A Neolithic inhumation burial; significant as an example of early human burial practices in a sand ridge environment.

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