County: Kilkenny Site name: GALLOWSHILL Td.
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: M. Ryan, Irish Antiquities Division, Natural Museum of Ireland
Site type: Mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 659937m, N 655043m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.643285, -7.114350
In November the National Museum investigated a small barrow-like mound on the top of Gallows Hill, Co. Kilkenny. It proved to be a fairly modern (landscaping) feature. The small mound had been raised on the site of a cemetery of extended, unaccompanied single burials of unknown date. Disarticulated bones derived from the surrounding graves were incorporated in the material of the mound.
