What is recorded here

Indicated occupies a Rath field in County Kilkenny, where a shallow ditch still rings a raised rectangle nearly one hundred metres long. A straight internal boundary divides the enclosure, suggesting exclusion, ownership or a changed purpose rather than a simple boundary marker. In 1958 a bulldozer broke that surface and exposed human bones, some still lying face up across the earth. The site has therefore stopped being decorative: it is a burial place that people lived beside, altered and finally uncovered.

A subrectangular enclosure (c. 95m NE-SW; c. 60 NW-SE) hachured on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with a straight NW-SE boundary dividing the enclosure in two. It is visible on an aerial photograph (GSIAP, S 303) and on satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 14 July 2018), though the SE portion of the bank is only visible as a cropmark, indicating a fosse. Local information records a slightly raised area enclosed by a ‘ditch’ in a field known as the ‘Rath’ field. Human remains (KK025-003001-) were discovered during bulldozing in 1958 when the enclosure was being levelled. Most of the bone was disturbed but some remains were in a supine position, aligned E-W, at a depth of 0.3-0.6m below ground level. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 485) See attached: KK025-003----_01 satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 24 February 2022

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