2005:814 - KILKENNY: Gallows Hill, Kilkenny

An assessment of a proposed single-house development at Gallowshill, Kilkenny city, was required. The site was of good archaeological potential, lying within the area of constraint for a cemetery site. This came to light in September 1969 when human bones were uncovered by County Council workers quarrying from a sandpit. Local reports note that, during construction works for the nearby scout den and school, ‘thousands’ of human bones were removed from the site and they may represent the site of a medieval gibbet. Testing, however, failed to uncover anything of archaeological interest.