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In October 1932 the National Museum of Ireland received a report stating that 'crude stone enclosures containing human skeletons' had been exposed through coastal erosion at Hook Point, in the townland of Churchtown, Co. Wexford. The remains lay approximately 0.6m below ground level.' Reverend Doyle describes how the graves 'give the appearance of a crude coffin', and describes the capstone resting on the two edge set side slabs. However, he then states that they were 'not the stereotype stone coffin one finds in old monastic cemeteries'. The site does not appear to have been excavated, and the remains were not acquired. The burials may have been lintelled burials, but the precise location was not recorded. However, it is unlikely to be connected with the single burial (WX054-015----) excavated at Churchtown in 2005.
Compiled by: Mary Cahill and Meave Sikora
Date of upload: 31 March, 2014
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