What is recorded here

Durrow, County Laois, January 1956: a sandpit on a farm yielded two buried bodies, one crouched and one prone, perhaps a woman and a child, deep enough to hide but shallow enough for shovels to find. James Deegan of Abbeyleix told the museum what the men had seen, then the matter closed like a door in a empty house. The dead kept their names, their age and their reason for being placed there; only the shape of the bending remained, saving them from forgetting for a moment before the soil took them back.

Unlocated burials within the townland of Dunmore (Cahill & Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 490). The files of the National Museum of Ireland records that in January 1956 human remains were discovered in a sandpit on a farm near Durrow, Co. Laois. Two human skeletons were apparently discovered at a depth of 0.6m, one of which was apparently in a crouched position. The site was reported to the NMI by Mr James Deegan, Abbeyleix and the Garda Síochána. According to Mr Deegan, one of the burials (that of a child) was buried in a prone position, while the other, that of a female, was crouched. No further details are recorded, and the site was not investigated by Museum personnel (NMI File). Compiled by Caimin O'Brien date of upload / revision : 10 August 2012

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