What is recorded here

Quarrying tools bit into sand and gravel near the hilltop in Garrannaguilly, County Kilkenny, and struck a compact stone chamber still intact. Inside that small firm box, measuring about 1.5m by 0.75m, someone had placed what mattered before forgetting took the name of the living. The hill kept the chamber hidden until machinery opened it, turning ordinary ground into a room where identity stopped being certain.

Identified during quarrying activity, close to the highest point of a hill composed of sand and gravel. The cist is completely intact (dims. c. 1.5m x 0.75m) and very firmly set in the ground (pers. comm. Mary Cahill, National Museum of Ireland, 9 March 2007). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 June 2017

A Bronze Age cist tomb, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. Its intact condition and elevated hilltop location suggest it may have been part of a funerary or ritual landscape associated with early metalworking communities in the region.

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