Slab-lined burial in Courtmacsherry — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

In 1966, workers in Courtmacsherry broke through soil to reveal a narrow stone box holding an adult male. The grave measured just over a metre and a half long, barely wide enough for a body stretched out beneath heavy lintels. No jewelry, weapon or pot marked the dead man, leaving only his bones and the deliberate geometry of the stones. He had waited more than thirteen centuries in that dark, tight chamber before human hands opened it again.

Discovered in 1966. Remains consisted of a slab-lined grave (L 1.8m; Wth 0.48m; H 0.36m) covered by lintels containing an extended inhumation of an adult male. There were no accompanying artefacts. A radiocarbon date for the burial ranges from 545-664 AD calibrated (NMI files). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 January 2010 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, 15-18.

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