Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Curragh (kildare Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (kildare Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Memorial Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.14894, -6.86572
- SMR number
- KD023-111----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1967, a human skull was found during the digging of a foundation to refurbish a well-known Curragh monument - the Priest's Grave - traditionally regarded as the burial place of a priest killed on the Curragh in 1798 during a massacre of insurgents by Crown Forces under General Duff. The skull was examined in the NMI and subsequently reburied on site. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 2, 482-3)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.