Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Connahy, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Connahy
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75959, -7.31305
- SMR number
- KK010-130----
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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
On the flat floor of the Nore river valley. There are good views in all directions across the valley. In a report of a cist (KK010-100----) discovered in Foulksrath c. 1851, it was reported that, 'Bodies (KK010-126----), also, have been found in a sand-hill at some distance from it; but the opinion with regard to them is, that they were placed there during an epidemic disease, when the people were unwilling that they should be buried in the churchyard' (Anon. 1849-51, 383). In the neighbouring townland of Connahy there is a gravel hillock (max. dims. c. 60m N-S c. 20m E-W; H 2-3m), c. 1 km NNE of Foulksrath Castle (KK010-056001-) which is known locally as the 'Kill' and is where numerous human burials were reputedly found. It seems likely that this hillock is the place described in the mid-19th-century report. While the hillock appears to be natural, it may have been modified. It has been damaged by quarrying and the construction of a silage clamp.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.