What is recorded here

Knockshough Glebe holds a La Tene glass bead and twelve skeletons buried together at the top of a hill. Men digging gravel in 1899 broke through ancient quiet and pulled death up into daylight. The dead had waited beneath ordinary soil while the living took stones for roads or gardens.

In his description of three La Tene glass beads in the National Museum of Ireland's collections, Raftery (1972, 14, 16) notes that one bead was discovered about 1899 in, according to Lord Walter Fitzgerald, a gravel pit with human bones. In a subsequent note, Fitzgerald (1909, 105) recorded that the bead was found at the top of a hill at a depth of 18 inches (c. 0.45m) below the surface; at the same place (a gravel pit) where 12 skeletons were found. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 15 December 2011

A La Tène period burial; significant for its association with early Iron Age grave goods, including rare glass beads.

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