- Kildalton, Co. Kilkenny, Kilkenny

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kilkenny Site name: Kildalton, Co. Kilkenny

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR KK039-083KK010-097001 Licence number:

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Site type: Graves of indeterminate date

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ITM: E 645599m, N 622833m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.355190, -7.330600

In August 1956 human remains were discovered during quarrying operations at a sandpit near Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, on the border with County Waterford.138The find was reported to the Gardaí at Callan, who informed the NMI. The burials do not appear to have been contained within a cist and no associated artefacts were found in the vicinity. The site was not investigated by the Museum.

138. Parish of Fiddown, barony of Iverk. SMR KK039-083——; the exact location of the site is not marked.