Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine
Drumgoole, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgoole
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromwells Pit
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromwells Pit
- Coordinates
- 52.80264, -7.19975
- SMR number
- KK006-003----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
An artificial hollow in an elevated position within a tree plantation. This feature appears to be the remains of open cast mining, possibly medieval or 17th-century in date. According to the OS letters (1839), this feature 'is called by the inhabitants "Cromwell's Pit"; it is an apparently artificial hollow, and it is said that Cromwell, from this, besieged "the Garrison."' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 44). When visited in 1993 the area had been subject to land disturbance and there was no visible trace of the hollow at ground level and no local knowledge of its location (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 129).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 22 February 2016
References
Farrelly, J., O'Reilly, B., and Loughran, A. 1993 Urban archaeological survey - county Kilkenny (2 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Outworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.