Burial ground

The National Monuments Service's description

On a prominent esker on the southern outskirts of Kilkenny City. Human remains were found during quarrying in 1969 with further burials (KK019-105001-) coming to light in 1975. The burials were all inhumations in a very disturbed context. One shallow pit containing a partly articulated skeleton was aligned WNW-ESE. A small circular mound (KK019-105----), noted on the surface of the quarry, proved to be a modern landscape feature with disarticulated bones from the surrounding graves incorporated in the mound material. (Ryan, M. 1975 Gallowshill. Mound. S 6055. Available at: http://www.excavations.ie [accessed 11 February 2013]). Testing in the area in 2005 failed to uncover anything of archaeological interest. (Ó Drisceoil 2008, 198) (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 354-6)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 11 February 2013

References

Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.

Ó Drisceoil, C. 2008 Gallows Hill, Kilkenny. In I. Bennett (ed), Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 198. Bray. Wordwell.

Ryan, M. 1975-6 1975:23 Gallowshill Td. Kilkenny:mound, S 6055. In T.G. Delaney(ed.), Excavations 1975-6: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 13. Belfast. Ulster Museum.