The event's importance was heightened by the major trial that followed in 1832, where local people were successfully defended by Daniel O'Connell.
The trial was accompanied by a gathering that is recorded to have been c.200,000 in Ballyhale, 1832, people called out from across four adjoining counties by the ringing of church bells along the way.
It may have been an inspiration for Daniel O'Connell's famous monster rallies of the 1840s and before the formation of the Irish National Land League, which Davitt co-founded in 1879.
Also nearby is the location of an Ogham Stone, one of only 14 in Kilkenny, and which is recorded by Megalithic Monuments of Ireland[12] as having been discovered in 1841 when standing erect, though now relocated on the same site.
They state that it is one of near 400 discovered in Ireland and the western UK, and was found to be composed of grained slate that has been dated back to 700-900 AD by Ziegler.
The Treacy Clan records show that Kilcurl was once well known in Kilkenny's cricket world, in 1884, at a time when the county had over 40 teams, although they had reduced to 20 by 1931.