What is recorded here

Barrow is a plough-levelled circular enclosure on the NE outskirts of Kilkenny City, visible only as a cropmark beside the Nore. It may have marked a burial or small ritual place within an older field system, now hidden under tillage and traffic. The ring road and river have changed the edge of the city, but the barrow remains a ghost shape in the soil, waiting for rain or sunlight to reveal it again.

On the NE outskirts of Kilkenny City, immediately E of the outer ring road which was completed in 2007, a river flows southward into the Nore c. 90m to the E, in tillage. Identified on an aerial photograph (GB89.Q.26, 13 July 1989) as a cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a deep fosse and an external bank, probably representing a plough-levelled barrow; a cropmark of a small pit in the interior indicates a probable burial deposit. An adjacent cropmark of a circular feature (KK019-122----) appears contiguous and interlinked with a common enclosing external bank. Both monuments are located within a series of fosses delineating a rectilinear field system (KK019-123----), however, these features may not be contemporaneous. The ring-ditch is also visible on Google Earth Pro (imagery date 13 August 2015). See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 13 August 2015) Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 October 2020

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