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Burial in An Tinbhear

Burial

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An Tinbhear holds a burial in County Mayo, though the details have slipped from public reach. The name itself sounds like a throat catching on a stone, fitting for a place where someone stopped moving and became part the earth. What is buried there may have been an ordinary life, marked only by a ditch and a mound now indistinct. The absence of a record does not erase the dead; it returns them to the older, quieter layer of the landscape where identity blunts into shape and shadow.
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

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