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Helen Shaw – T\u00f3char Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 24th 2025 Ciara Egan and the Lemanaghan Bog Heritage and Conservation Group, <\/a>Co Offaly were preparing for the annual community commemoration of St Manch\u00e1n\u2019s feast day<\/a> at St Manch\u00e1n Church, on the ancient monastic site where Manch\u00e1n built his monastery in 645AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s close to a stone dome known as Mella’s Cell<\/a>, associated with the saint\u2019s mother, Mella and a Holy Well<\/a> beloved by local people. But on the night of January 24th Storm \u00c9owyn <\/a>hit, causing national devastation. The community event was cancelled. But after the storm passed people noticed that, beyond the site, several large pine trees had been unearthed and what looked like bones were revealed. Local historian and volunteer community leader S\u00e9amus Corcoran was called down and he said he thought the bones were humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: the uprooted trees revealed ancient history (photo Helen Shaw, April 2025)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That area was then protected and the group contacted the Heritage Officer in Co Offaly County Council. A full archaeological investigation was initiated, facilitated by the National Monuments Service and the National Museum. Later, a team of archaeologists led by Dr Denis Shine, a Birr native who knows the area well, excavated the site. The remains have now been carbon dated to at least 1,000 years<\/a>, the early Christian period, and that discovery is changing both local and national understanding of the significance of the monastic site. \u201cWe wouldn’t have thought this was where humans were buried\u201d, Ciara Egan says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Ciara Egan, Lemanaghan Bog Heritage and Conservation Group talking with Gear\u00f3id O\u2019Foighil, Cloughjordan Community Development Group – Scohaboy Bog. (Photo Helen Shaw, April 2025).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the local community the revelation, on the Saint\u2019s feast day, is like the past and the land talking back. “The discovery feels like a message from our ancestors,” is how Aoife Phelan, from the Lemanaghan Bog Heritage and Conservation Group describes it.”It is a moment when a sacred landscape has spoken again, revealing that Lemanaghan still yields the secrets of a deeply rooted past”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years the community group has been mobilised to try and stop Bord na M\u00f3na (BnM) <\/a>from developing a windfarm on Lemanghan Bog. The group says over 2,000 people <\/a>opposed the zoning of the land as a windfarm. The Lemanaghan peatlands were previously part of Bord na M\u00f3na\u2019s industrial harvesting of turf and BnM and SSE Renewables plan to install 15 turbines <\/a>on part of the land not far from the monastic site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mapof the Lemanaghan Wind Farm with the Church and Holy Well marked with blue dots on right. (Map from www.lemanaghanwindfarm.ie)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Locals like Ciara, S\u00e9amus and Aoife believe the land should be allowed return to nature conservation and that the proximity of the windfarm to the heritage site itself makes it unsuitable. While the discovery of the ancient Christian burial site underscores community opposition, BnaM and SSE Renewables say the plan goes ahead and the nearest wind turbine is a kilometre away from Mella\u2019s Cell. The windfarm project has been designated as a Strategic Infrastructural Project and therefore is handled directly by Coimisi\u00fan Pleann\u00e1la<\/a>. Ciara told Philip Boucher Hayes, on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 Countrywide<\/a>\u00a0 \u201cwe\u2019re in crisis on biodiversity\u201d and that the community is making the case to preserve the bog landscape, for nature and national archeology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Local historian Seamus Corcoran of the Lemanaghan Bog Heritage and Conservation Group showing the windfarm plan to a visiting group from the Community Wetlands Forum in April 2025 (Photo Helen Shaw).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

LISTEN:<\/strong> <\/a>S\u00e9amus Corcoran on what the bog means to him <\/a>(recorded at T\u00f3char Stories Boglands event<\/a>, National Library, July 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Shine\u2019s team is still investigating the site but told RT\u00c9\u2019s Sinead Hussey, Midlands Correspondent, that multiple individuals were found buried according to Christian tradition, aligned east to west. Scientific analysis shows that one burial dates to between 662 and 817 AD, while another dates to between 707 and 939 AD, meaning the individuals were possibly laid to rest within decades of St Manch\u00e1n\u2019s own death in 664 AD. \u201cIt looks like we have an early medieval cemetery on the site\u201d, Dr. Shine says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WATCH <\/strong>: RTE\u2019s video with Dr Denis Shine about the discovery, January 23 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LISTEN:<\/strong> RT\u00c9 Radio 1, Countrywide, Lemanghan Bog. March 7 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Local historian and community volunteer leader Seamus Corcoran at the monastic site with Dr Kate Flood, Community Wetlands Forum (Photo Helen Shaw).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

READ<\/strong>: Human Remains are carbon dated to early Christian period <\/a>Offaly Express, Jan 21 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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