County - Londonderry
Location
– Mulkeeragh Townland, Dungiven Parish
Date of discovery - 1753
Description
In a bog within 200 yards of the road, in the farm of Jacob
Smith and in the townland of Mulkeeragh, a grave of earth 9
feet long, 8 feet broad, and 4 feet high and on the southern
end, there is an ordinary stone. This was raised over the remain
of a human body discovered in the same spot in a full tartan
military uniform dress in or about the year of our Lord 1753.
He was discovered by the late Josiah Smith, father of the present
Jacob Smith, while in the act of cutting turf in the bog of
Mulkeeragh. He found him stretched at full length at about 2
feet under the surface of a solid bank. He wore over his uniform
dress, a long tartan cloak, and both the body and the garments
were in an excellent state of preservation and seemed to have
suffered little change or decay. Many persons came from all
parts of the surrounding neighbourhood to inspect the body of
the Highland Soldier. They consulted with each other where he
should be re-interred and after some hours of deliberation,
they came to the conclusions that there should be an inquest
held upon it on the spot, before anything of the kind was done.
This was considered the more necessary in the consequence of
the extraordinary state of preservation of both the body and
garments. Agreeable to the wishes of the assembled multitude,
the inquest was held in the usual manner, but the decision is
not at present remembered, further than they agreed to bury
the body in the same spot in which they were found. This was
immediately done, and the body now lies in its original grave
in the manner already described.
(taken from Lindow Man –The Body in the Bog by I.M
Stead, J.B Bourke, Don Brothwell ISBN 0-7141-1386-7)
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Location
- Ballygrudden, Dungiven parish
Date of discovery – 1831
Description
Extraordinary Discovery of a Female and Infant Bodies. In a
bog in the townland of Ballgudden, there were the bodies of
a female and an infant child some feet in depth beneath the
surface of the bog. The woman’s hair seemed to suffer little
from change, time or the unnatural tomb in which it was lodged.
The body remained in its natural shape with some parts of the
flesh complete cement, this is much resembling the fat of an
animal. The hair was yellow colour…. The infants flesh
disappeared altogether and round its neck there was a leather
strap, with a small buckle attached. This discovery was made
in 1831.
(taken from Lindow Man –The Body in the Bog by I.M
Stead, J.B Bourke, Don Brothwell ISBN 0-7141-1386-7)
Location - Camnish
townland, Bovevagh Parish
Date of discovery – 1834
Description
The grave raised over the remains of the female lately discovered
in Camnish and Derryard bogs is 6 feet long, 1 foot high, and
well shaped and a stone placed at the head and a foot of the
grave, which stands in the interior of the above bog.
(taken from Lindow Man –The Body in the Bog by I.M
Stead, J.B Bourke, Don Brothwell ISBN 0-7141-1386-7)
Location
- Terrydremount South Townland, Balteagh Paris
Date of discovery – 1832
Description
(taken from Lindow Man –The Body in the Bog by I.M Stead,
J.B Bourke, Don Brothwell ISBN 0-7141-1386-7)
Discovery of a skeleton in a bog. James Thompson discovered
3 feet under the surface of a solid bog in the townland of Terrydremount
South in 1832, the skeleton of a female and the shoes worn by
her, and a wooden crutch. The colour of her hair was yellow,
the bones, hair, shoes and crutch were found in a moderate state
of preservation. The crutch was ingeniously turned on the surface
by a wheelwright. There was not a particle of flesh on the bones.
The skeleton was disjointed in various parts by the turf before
it was discovered to be a human skeleton. After some inspection,
the bones and skeleton were collected together and buried very
deep in the same place were they were found.
Location
- Ballygroll townland, Cumber Parish
Date of discovery –1835
Description
Discovery of a skeleton. In the townland of Ballygroll, in a
bog, there was lately discovered the skeleton of a child, coffined.
The inside covering was a sheet of paper used instead of linen,
as a winding sheet. The coffin was made of ruff construction
and sunk several feet down in the moss. The coffin and its contents
seemed to be embedded for a long time in the above place, as
all appeared in complete decay.
(taken from Lindow Man –The Body in the Bog by I.M
Stead, J.B Bourke, Don Brothwell ISBN 0-7141-1386-7)
