Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Gallowshill (shillelogher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallowshill (shillelogher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64312, -7.23769
- SMR number
- KK019-105----
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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 summit of Gallows Hill. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). This was inspected by the National Museum of Ireland in November 1975 and described as a small barrow-like mound which proved to be a fairly modern (landscaping) feature (Ryan 1975-6). The small mound had been raised on the site of a cemetery of extended, unaccompanied single burials (KK019-034----) of unknown date (ibid.). Disarticulated bones (KK019-105001-) derived from the surrounding graves were incorporated in the material of the mound (ibid.). Other burials (KK019-034----) had been found in the sand pit c. 130m to the E in 1969.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 October 2020
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.