Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Ballynascarry (gore), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynascarry (gore)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69573, -7.53364
- SMR number
- KK012-039001-
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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 a long N-S running ridge, under either tillage or grass. There is good local visibility. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 373-4), 'The Four Masters enter a battle fought here [on Graine Hill] between the Eoghanachta, a tribe seated in Cashel, and the Ossorians' in A.D. 891. He goes on to state that, 'Evidences of this battle, in the shape of human bones, have frequently come to light all over the top of the Hill, especially in the "Top of the Cross" field, where two large grave-pits full of human remains were come upon in 1890'. There is no local knowledge of these burials.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 June 2019
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.