Mystery of the skulls found on a road at Sunday’s Gate - in 1865!
A story from 1865 showed just how historic and sometimes undiscovered Drogheda was and is.
‘Sometimes in the course of street operations strange discoveries are made. The strangest yet made in the coarse of our Water Woiks Company’s pipe-laying happened yesterday at Sunday’s Gate, two human skulls and other bones being found within a foot or so of the surface.
‘One skull is large, the other small, the latter being broken in removal. Conjecture cannot account for the mystery, as no graveyard ever existed at that place within the memory of people living, and human remains are not generally deposited so close to the surface.
‘Nor is it likely, supposing these were the victims of foul play, that an open road would be chosen as a burial place likely to serve the purpose of concealment. Possibly dwelling-houses may have stood where the road now runs; but in any case the probability is that these remains have for long lain under ground, and the police, to whom information was of course given, can only wonder with others, how, when, and why they came there.’