Sidetracked Claremorris Traditional Cache
AllBon: All gone, I'm afraid
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A nice easy cache in the Sidetracked series located near railway stations.This cache is a magnetic micro, located in a large car park just to the north of Claremorris Railway Station. There is no need to go into the station or anywhere near the track. Please bring your own pen. Stealth will be required as there are lots of muggles around here.
Claremorris railway station was opened on the 19th May 1862. Trains leave the station several times a day providing a service between Dublin and Westport.
The car park was, until 2006, the local cattle mart however it's history is much more profound. The car park and the link road both cover a 19th-century paupers’ graveyard associated with Claremorris workhouse. This site was also used for the burial of unbaptised infants, becoming in effect an urban equivalent of the familiar children’s burial-grounds or cillíns which appear in the Irish countryside.
In the 1960s, a sewerage pipe trench exposed numerous human bones, some of which were reinterred at Ballinasmalla Abbey, just outside Claremorris. Further disturbance occurred during the construction of the NCF cattle mart and car park, which was built over part of the burial ground. During works associated with the Claremorris sewage scheme
in 1998, two burials were encountered by archaeologists and were preserved in situ. In 2005 five more burials were encountered by archaeologists building the road next to the car park; one coffin was uncovered directly under a slab of concrete and four pine coffins were exposed below the NCF mart carpark surface.
Following consultations between Mayo County Council, the Department of Environment, Heritage & Local Government and the National Museum of Ireland, it was agreed to preserve the burials in situ. The road was raised about 60cm above the current ground level to prevent further disturbance within the known confines of the paupers’ graveyard.
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Guvf sne, ab shegure.