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Burial

Mountgale, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Mountgale, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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