Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Skreen More, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skreen More
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24081, -8.72852
- SMR number
- SL019-257----
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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
Human remains were discovered during excavation for a slurry pit on a farm at Skreen More in November 1989. The skeletons had been exposed in the side of the cutting at a depth of 0.5m below the original ground level. All had been extensively damaged by the digger. The burials appear to have been orientated E-W and lay at intervals of 0.10m - 1.50m apart. There were no traces of burial structures or grave goods and the trench was backfilled. A ruined medieval parish church (SL019-007001-) is located just c. 110m to W of where the burials were found and a holy well, dedicated to St.Adamnáin, c. 65m to N. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 514)
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.