What is recorded here

Slab-lined burial in Moig is a chamber built from flat stones, not a dug grave, and it appeared only when men levelled the killeen in 1952. Inside lay one skeleton in a narrow box of stone, small enough to hide beneath a field but large enough to hold an entire life. The chamber may have been made for a famine victim, a child, a stranger or a person whose name the village never spoke. In that shallow stone room, forgetting and memory collided: the dead were hidden from sight, yet the shape of the chamber refused to disappear.

Discovered in 1952 when enclosure (LI019-093----) was being levelled. Described as 'cist with skeleton … 130cm by 50cm and 40cm deep' (NMI). According to local information the enclosure was known locally as "the killeen" and used as a famine burial ground. An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, 100-102. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 August 2012

Slab-lined cist burial, likely dating to the Early Christian or medieval period. Its significance lies in providing evidence of burial practices in a rural or monastic context, though its exact function and wider archaeological context remain unclear.

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