What is recorded here

Inishglora's eroding southeast cliff holds a squarish pit cut through ancient sand, filled with charcoal-flecked soil and two stacked stones. Human bones lay scattered at the cliff base in 2016, suggesting the pit marked a burial or disposal site rather than a simple storage hole. The sea now steals the cliff inch by inch, carrying whatever truth the stones and bones once kept.

Visible in section in the eroding, vertical land-edge scarp on the SE shoreline of Inishglora. A possible pit (Wth 0.4-0.8m; D 0. 35-0.4m) is visible approximately mid-way along the length of a midden layer (MA016-020----), at a point where the midden appears thin and insubstantial. The exact relationship of the pit to the midden is unclear; it certainly cuts into the clean sand layer beneath the midden. The pit appeared to be squarish in cross- section, filled with dark brown, charcoal-flecked sandy soil, with two large stones, lying horizontally, one above the other at the upper E side of the fill. A number of displaced human bones were noted in August 2016 lying exposed on the ground surface at the base of the section face. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 June 2017

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