Burial in Connahy, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

In a report of a cist (KK010-100----) discovered in Foulksrath c. 1851, it was reported that, 'Bodies, also, have been found in a sand-hill at some distance from it; but the opinion with regard to them is, that they were placed there during an epidemic disease, when the people were unwilling that they should be buried in the churchyard' (Anon. 1849-51, 383). In the neighbouring townland of Connahy there is a gravel hillock (KK10-130----), c. 1km NNE of Foulksrath Castle (KK010-056001-) which is known locally as the 'Kill' and is where numerous human burials were reputedly found. It seems likely that this hillock is the place described in the mid-19th-century report.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK010-126

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