What is recorded here

Two people lay flagged and unburnt inside a great Kilkenny fort, yet careless diggers smashed their clay vessels before leaving. The child’s small box and the man’s larger chamber still mark the boundary between counties, waiting beneath soil that has already given up gravel to modern hunger. What belongs to a border is never entirely owned, nor entirely forgotten.

On the county boundary between Kilkenny and Carlow and located at the E end of a linear earthwork (KK016-006----; KK016-006001-; KK016-006002-; KK021-006----) known as, ‘Rathduff Trench’ which roughly E-W runs immediately outside the N quadrant. One of two cist burials found within a large enclosure (KK021-008----). According to the OS Letters (1839), ‘The Revd. W.K. Boroughs states that two small graves [KK021-008001-; KK021-008002-] were some years ago discovered at this rath about two feet [0.61m] under the surface, beside each other, the one that of a child, the other that of a full grown man. These graves were neatly flagged at the bottom and sides; one was eighteen inches [0.47m] long and fourteen [0.36m] high, the other three feet [0.91m] by eighteen inches [0.47m]. In each was found an earthen vessel of baked clay which was broken by the carelessness of the diggers. The bones were not charred by fire. This is a fine fort and formed one of a chain which seems to have separated two important ancient territories’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 23-4 (9)). According to Feeley (2008, 46) the monument had been quarried into for gravel. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 April 2021

Cist in Duninga is a small stone burial chamber, likely dating to the Early Christian or Bronze Age period. Its location on a linear earthwork suggests a possible ritual or territorial significance in the landscape.

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