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Barrow - ditch barrow

Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Gowran, 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
Gowran
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.63040, -7.06837
SMR number
KK020-120----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the NW outskirts of Gowran and immediately inside the medieval town defences. During an archaeological excavation (06E0625) carried out in advance of the construction of the ‘Ogenty’ housing development on the Kilkenny road, Gowran, a ditch barrow (diam. c. 9m) with a central burial pit was noted (Ó Drisceoil 2009, 263). The W edge of the barrow was subsequently excavated, revealing a shallow round-bottomed fosse (Wth 0.9m; D 0.35m) (Delaney 2023, 6.3; excavation no. 21E0385). There fills of the fosse were sterile (ibid.).

Ref.:
Delany, D. 2023 Archaeological excavation at Ogenty, Kilkenny Road, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny. Final report. Excavation licence number: 21E0385. An Bord Pleanala reference: ABP-306914-19. Dominic Delany & Associates. Unpublished report

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 19 April 2023

References

Ó Drisceoil, C. 2009 Greenshill, Gowran: urban, medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, No. 1031, 263. Dublin. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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