What is recorded here

Drumrevagh holds a buried life so vivid it still draws crowds. In 1935, men digging house foundations broke through years of forgetfulness and uncovered a skeleton. They placed it in a box at the Foxford Garda barracks, where hundreds came daily to stare at the bare bones of someone who once breathed, loved, and walked beside them. The dead did not disappear; they became a spectacle, forcing the living to remember that every footprint is temporary and every house is built on forgotten skin.

A skeleton was uncovered in 1935 at this location in Drumrevagh townland when foundations were being laid for the construction of a house (NMI files /SMR file). It was reported in the Irish Independent (9th Nov. 1935) that 'The skeleton, enclosed in a box, now lies at the Garda barracks, Foxford, where daily hundreds of people come to view it.’. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 April 2020

A single burial from the early medieval period; its isolation and lack of associated monument make its wider significance uncertain.

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