What is recorded here

Indicated is a modern landscaping mound built above old graves on Gallows Hill, County Kilkenny. It appeared on the 1839 map as a circular enclosure, but in 1975 the National Museum of Ireland found disarticulated bones mixed into the mound and single burials beneath it. The hill may have turned death into scenery, making memory into soil and shape.

On the summit of Gallows Hill. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). This was inspected by the National Museum of Ireland in November 1975 and described as a small barrow-like mound which proved to be a fairly modern (landscaping) feature (Ryan 1975-6). The small mound had been raised on the site of a cemetery of extended, unaccompanied single burials (KK019-034----) of unknown date (ibid.). Disarticulated bones (KK019-105001-) derived from the surrounding graves were incorporated in the material of the mound (ibid.). Other burials (KK019-034----) had been found in the sand pit c. 130m to the E in 1969. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 October 2020

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