Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Rathmoyle, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmoyle
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.92346, -7.32386
- SMR number
- LA024-029001-
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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
The files of the National Museum of Ireland records that in October 1953 human remains (LA024-029001-) were discovered during bulldozing of a ringfort (LA024-029) at Rathmoyle near Abbeyleix, Co. Laois (Cahill & Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 490-1). The remains were discovered in one of the outer banks of a trivallate ringfort. The bones, representing the remains of at least two skeletons, one of which lay extended, were very fragmentary. The site was visited by Ellen Prendergast. No grave goods or structural stones were noticed in the vicinity of the burial, although a horse tooth was later recovered from the site. (NMI File)
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload / revision : 10 August 2012
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.