Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Rathculbin, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathculbin
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK027-059002-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Carrigan (ibid. 324-5) mentions, ‘another rath [KK027-059002-] in the townland, in a large field at the cross-roads of Rathculbin, called Bawnarawha, or the Rath field. This rath is known to the old people as the “Rellig,” that is, the churchyard, and though its interior now presents no appearances of a churchyard, or of foundations of walls, there can be no question that it is the site of the ancient chapel of Rathculbin’. It is possible that this is the enclosure (KK027-090----) which was identified as a cropmark on satellite imagery (OS Ortho, imagery date 2004-2006; DigitalGlobe, imagery date 2011-2013) is the same as the ‘Reillig’, it is located c. 160m WSW of the cross-roads of Rathculbin, on the N side of the Mallardstown-Newtown church road and c. 30m E of the farmyard which contains the remains of a ruined late 16th/early 17th-century house (KK027-025----).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 6 April 2023
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.