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Show j - A 98 BATTLE GRAVE. i Whilst excavating for the foundations of a house to be built at Fprrybank, Arklow, adjacent, to the historic bridge of the town, round which the encounter between the. English and insurgent troops, nndec. Father Michael Murphy, was hottest in the rebellion of 1798, the workmen came upon a vast quantity of human remains. The bones were but a short distance from the surface, but for many-years many-years past the place ha3 been denuded of much of its covering, the surroundings being a vast sand liill which was-taken away for building work. Many theorie3 are advanced to account for so many skeletons skel-etons in such a place, and amongst those is that which is the most likely after the battle which took place in the town, the remains of the patriots were taken out iii cartloads and deposited in holes in the most convenient and handy places, and this would be one of them. |