Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Crossmoyle, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crossmoyle
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not marked
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not marked
- Coordinates
- 54.17791, -7.23210
- SMR number
- MO011-010010-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered during test trenching associated with the North East Broadband Project, Phase II (Excavation Licence No. E2335). 'During the course of monitoring at Ball Alley human remains were encountered 0.4m below the street surface along the southern side of the carriageway near the entrance gate to the graveyard. Due to the shallow depth of the burials and the presence of numerous pre-existing services on the northern side of the carriageway, it was not possible to re-route the trench. Subsequent excavation uncovered seven articulated human skeletons and a small quantity of disarticulated bone. All of the burials were extended in a supine position and were orientated east-west in the standard Christian burial manner'. (Delaney 2009, 443)
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
References
Delaney, D. 2009 Clones Burials. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 443, No. 1667. Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.