What is recorded here

Ballynaslee in County Kilkenny is where a skeleton once lay between flags, while many other bones scattered through the soil between the hill and the river. That much is clear. The rest has blurred into legend, perhaps because the place itself resists being known.

On a gentle slope above the flood plain on the W side of the River Nore, in reclaimed grassland. According to Borlase (1897, vol. 2, 402), in this townland, 'Between this hill and the river, a great many human bones have been found, and among others, a skeleton enclosed between flags'. The precise location of these burials within the townland is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 February 2016

A Neolithic or early Bronze Age burial site, likely a cist or simple inhumation, based on the presence of human bones. Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of prehistoric burial practices in the River Nore region.

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