Moves Made by State to Return Bones Taken in Emergency Dig on Omey Island 30 Years Ago
24th May 2021
Omey island, Connemara
Relatives of Omey islanders have renewed their appeal for a return of bones taken by the State in an emergency excavation three decades ago.
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The Sunday Times reports, a professor of archaeology has been contacted about human remains removed from Omey off Claddaghduff in Connemara in 1992, which residents have campaigned for years to be returned.
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage said last week that it had approached Tadhg O’Keeffe, a University College Dublin professor, to discuss his excavation on the Co Galway tidal island and “the matter of the burials in the context of the local interest”.
A new cairn has been discovered in County Laois in the last 2 weeks. Located on the summit of Coolnacarrick Hill near the Rock of Dunamase the cairn was d.
Wow! Cairn discovered less than 20km from Kilkenny border
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A cairn has been discovered in the Coolnacarrick townland of County Laois, less than 20km from the Kilkenny/Laois border, in the last 2 weeks.
Located on the summit of Coolnacarrick Hill the cairn was discovered by two non-professional archaeologists with a driven and determined interest in the heritage of Ireland.
The discovery has been reported to the National Monuments Service of Ireland and can now be seen on the Historical Environment Viewer (HEV) of the service. Readers can go here https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/and search for Coolnacarrick, Laois to check out the Historical Environment Viewer. Click on the red dot to see the information now being provided by the National Heritage Service.