Archaeology and monuments in County Kilkenny
The Discover Alone map has 4,247 archaeology and monuments in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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White ChurchArchaeological placeWhite Church in County Kilkenny, Ireland has been reduced to two mounds of rubble where its Western, Northern and…
Upperwood Demesne Ringfort (rath)Archaeological placeUpperwood Demesne Ringfort stands in County Kilkenny as a buried circle of human memory. Whether it marked a home, a…
Tubbrid Upper RingfortArchaeological placeTubbrid Upper Ringfort stands in County Kilkenny, a bare earth scar where human hands once bent nature into a circle.…
Tubbrid Lower RingfortArchaeological placeTubbrid Lower Ringfort stands in County Kilkenny, Ireland, a quiet earthwork where human hands shaped the land long…
Tubbrid Lower RingfortArchaeological placeTubbrid Lower Ringfort stands in County Kilkenny, Ireland, preserving a circular boundary where people once lived…
Tubbrid Lower RingfortArchaeological placeTubbrid Lower Ringfort stands in County Kilkenny, Ireland, a quiet archaeological place where earth and memory still…
Tubbrid Holy Well (Site of)Holy wellThere is a story that a holy well once stood at Tubbrid in County Kilkenny. People may have brought sick children…
Trinity WellHoly wellTrinity Well stood on the Arigna river valley floor, drawing crowds for a July pattern beside a Mass bush that marked…
Town defences in ThomastownTown defencesThe Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic…
Town defences in InistiogeTown defencesThe Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic…
TombTomb — effigialKilfane church holds a massive limestone tomb lid carved for a warrior wearing mail and bearing the Cantwell shield.…
TombTomb — effigialThe tomb stands in the north chapel of Grangefertagh, where the MacGillapatrick family built their house of prayer.…
TombTomb — effigialHalf-choked and trembling, I watched the camera man handle the tomb like a toy. He set his boot on the knight's chest…
TombTomb — effigialNo visible tomb, chamber or chambered tomb remains at the named place. The claim is not that a hidden chamber exists…
TombTomb — chest tombJohn Rothe and Letitia Rothe slept inside fossiliferous limestone from 1590 until 1876, when church workers removed…
TombTomb — chest tombWilliam Shee, Kilkenny burgess and sovereign, lies beneath a limestone chest carved with passion instruments and a…
ToberunnaHoly wellToberunna is a holy well in County Kilkenny where clean water still rises beside an old ritual mark. People may have…
ToberpatrickHoly wellToberpatrick is a holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland, where three small springs emerge on the wet valley floor…
ToberpatrickHoly wellToberpatrick is a small stone-lined holy well tucked into the east-facing slope of a narrow gorge in County Kilkenny…
TobernaveanHoly wellTobernavean is a holy well hidden in a small wooded area of County Kilkenny, Ireland. It appeared on the 1839 Ordnance…
TobernapeastiaHoly wellTobernapeastia is the forgotten Well of the Worm in County Kilkenny, where people once washed their hands to cure the…
TobernamonineHoly wellTobernamonine is a holy well in County Kilkenny where clean water still rises through ancient stone. People may have…
TobernalitheHoly wellTobernalithe is a holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland, where clean water still rises through ancient stone. People…
TobernakillHoly wellTobernakill is a holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is a ritual site where clean water still rises through earth…
TobernagibbogeHoly wellTobernagibboge, the Well of the Rags, still sits ten metres east of a meandering Kilkenny stream, buried under rough…
Tobernabrone RingfortArchaeological placeTobernabrone Ringfort stands in County Kilkenny, a quiet earthwork where human hands shaped the land long before modern…
TobermurryHoly wellTobermurry is a holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland, named for the Lady but stripped of devotion by modern use. The…
TobermoluaHoly wellTobermolua was a great pool in the bog until road builders filled it in about 1760, forcing its water to emerge beside…
TobermogueHoly wellTobermogue, St. Mogue’s holy well, stood on the east side of the Kilkenny to Stonyford road until a pump replaced its…
ToberlaghteenHoly wellToberlaghteen is a holy well beside the Nuenna river in County Kilkenny, marked by a large ash tree growing over a…
ToberkyleHoly wellToberkyle is a holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It appeared in Gothic script on the first Ordnance Survey map in…
ToberkieranHoly wellToberkieran is a neglected holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Keeran's name still belongs to the marshy water…
ToberelleenHoly wellToberelleen is a holy well hidden in rough Kilkenny pasture, reduced today to a dry rough hole in the ground. The…
ToberbrideHoly wellToberbride is a holy well in County Kilkenny where water still escapes a remarkable rock beside the old Kells road.…
ToberbrideHoly wellToberbride is a holy well in County Kilkenny where people walked for prayer and relief on St Bridget’s feast day. The…
ToberboyHoly wellToberboy was a holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland, recorded near Templeboy church before the site fell from later…
ToberatooHoly wellToberatoo is a holy well hidden in the marshy pasture of Castlegarden, County Kilkenny. Surveyors marked it in Gothic…ToberaniddaunHoly wellToberaniddaun is a hidden holy well near Kilmanagh, County Kilkenny, where people claimed miraculous cures for fevers…
ToberakinHoly wellToberakin is a holy well in County Kilkenny named Tobar a Chinn, the Well of the Head, though the reason for that name…
ToberadrughHoly wellToberadrugh is a corbel-roofed holy well on a Kilkenny valley terrace, linked to St Fiachra and his hermit. People…
ToberacluggeenHoly wellToberacluggeen is a holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland, where water has long fed local ritual life. The name itself…
Tibberaghny Standing StoneArchaeological placeTibberaghny Standing Stone rises in County Kilkenny, a bare stone marker preserved among ordinary fields. It may have…
Templeboy Church (site of)Archaeological placeTempleboy Church stands as a vanished marker in County Kilkenny, its stones perhaps scattered or buried while its name…
Sweathouse in CastlegardenSweathouseAt the junction of four field boundaries, two of which, to the NW and N, are also townland and parish boundaries. A…
Stonecarthy East Church RuinArchaeological placeStonecarthy East Church Ruin marks a lost worship site in County Kilkenny, where forgotten hands may have built, prayed…
Stone row in Smithstown (knocktopher By., Jerpoint West Ed)Stone rowThree granite stones stand aligned north to south in Smithstown, decreasing in height like a fading voice. Rev. P.…
Stone CrossCross — High crossMnemo failed because she wanted to show off. She built a visible chamber, populated it with a dancing girl, and asked…
Stone CrossCross — High crossStone Cross rises on a flat-topped Kilkenny hill, its sandstone arms crowded with horses, lions and uncertain saints.…
Stone CrossCross — High crossStone Cross stands on a Kilkenny hillock beside St. Nicholas’s holy well, marking a monastery founded by St. Gobán…
St. Scoheens WellHoly wellSt. Scoheens Well in County Kilkenny is a natural spring captured inside a nineteenth-century graveyard wall, sitting…
St. Patricks BushRitual site — holy tree/bushSt. Patricks Bush is a ritual hawthorn beside the Kilkenny-Kells road where people hung cloth strips on its branches…
St. Nicholas WellHoly wellKillamery graveyard holds a carved boulder chamber where spring water still seeps beneath a triangular pediment shaped…
St. Mullins WellFontThe Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic…
St. Martins WellHoly wellSt. Martins Well hides beneath reclaimed pasture in County Kilkenny, marked only by memory and a nearby stream. People…
St. Margarets WellHoly wellSt. Margarets Well in County Kilkenny, Ireland, marked on the 1839 Ordnance Survey map, is a ritual site where water…
St. Lukes WellHoly wellSt. Lukes Well is a ritual holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It belongs to the old Christian practice of marking…
St. Kieranss WellHoly wellSt. Kieranss Well is a holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland, lying near the church of St Kieran. It joined a…
St. Kierans WellHoly wellSt. Kierans Well in County Kilkenny is a dried rock-cleft cavity that once anchored a pilgrimage stretching five…
St. Johns WellHoly wellSt. Johns Well is a ritual site in County Kilkenny where thousands once gathered on 24th June for a pilgrimage believed…
St. Johns WellHoly wellSt. Johns Well is a spring in County Kilkenny woodland, feeding a stream that joins the River Nore. It is dedicated to…