County: Kilkenny Site name: GALLOWS HILL, KILKENNY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 19:34 Licence number: 05E1397
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology, Threecastles, Kilkenny.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 651689m, N 655043m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.644134, -7.236215
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.
