County: Kilkenny Site name: BALLYOSKILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Miss E. Prendergast and Mr. M.F. Ryan, Irish Antiquities Division, National Museum of Ireland
Site type: Multiple Cists
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 646686m, N 676357m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.836135, -7.307101
This site (at ca. 900 O.D.) was not marked on the 0.S. sheets of the area. It was discovered in the course of bulldozing operations when two large cuts through the site disclosed the presence of three rectangular cists, two of them empty and the third containing two Vase Food-Vessels, a pygmy cup and some fragments of burnt bone. Rescue excavation revealed the presence of two further cists, both empty. One of them was of miniature
The site lay at the edge of a modern quarry, which had encroached upon it. The cairn had been drastically denuded in fairly recent times and nowhere stood higher than 45cm.
