What is recorded here

Enclosure in Toormore East is a buried human chamber on a ridge above the Toormore River, damaged in 1989 when reclamation work scattered bones across a raised area about 59m wide. A curving scarp and an overgrown boundary wall still mark part of its edge, while one nearly intact burial remained beside the broken remains. The place holds both loss and continuity: somebody was set down there, the land was taken for pasture, and the bodies emerged only because people cut into the earth.

In pasture on the top, mid, and lower E-facing slope of a ridge on the W edge of the flood plain of the Toormore River which flows N c. 115m to the E. According to Buckley, Glass and Moore (1989, 26-32), in 1989 land reclamation works resulted in the exposure and scattering of bones across what was described as, ‘a slightly raised area roughly 59m in diameter, its perimeter much altered by later field walls and hedges’ (op. cit. 26). Traces of an enclosure appear to survive along the SSE and SW as a curving scarp (H 1.8-2.5m) the curving line of which is followed by a totally overgrown field boundary wall from SW-W-NW. The disturbed bones were retrieved and subsequently identified as human and a follow-up inspection identified an almost intact in situ burial (MA070-108002-). Date of visit: 16-9-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

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