Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Mountgale, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountgale
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66265, -7.38501
- SMR number
- KK018-022001-
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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
In pasture. In 1950 human bones (representing c. 14 individuals) were uncovered when the inner bank of a bivallate enclosure (KK018-022----) was being levelled as part of Land Project works (NMI Correspondence Files, 12 August 1950). These burials (KK018-022001-) were c. 0.6m below the surface along the E side of the inner bank (ibid.). It was noted that, 'the bones and skulls were in different positions as if buried where they had fallen...Th bones crumbled and were crushed by the bull-dozer. The undamaged bones were collected and buried in one spot by the workmen' (ibid.). It was thought locally that the burials may be of famine victims who were found on the adjacent public road (NMI Correspondence Files, 16 October 1950).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.