What is recorded here

Burial ground in Bantis is a burial ground in Bantis, County Tipperary, Ireland. The burial ground remains unlocated within the townland. An account says adult skeletons were discovered while Mr Gibson was bulldozing a scrub-covered mound, whose middle later became a silage pit. Mr Brophy instead said the surrounding field, rather than the mound, had been used to bury children who died before baptism.

According to John Feehan (Environmental Survey, Damer House, 1987) 'There is a field in the south west of the townland known as the Killogans. There is a bit of confusion over this area. There is a large mound covered in scrub in the north of the field which is hard to tell if it is part of an esker [or] a man made mound. It was here that Mr Gibson was bulldozing when he discovered adult skeletons. He has now a silage pit in the middle of this mound and cattle are walking on top of it and it is in an awful mess. Mr. Brophy a local man claims that this mound is not the burial place but that the field itself was a bural place for children who died before been baptized'. Burial ground remains unlocated within the townland. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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