Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Kernanstown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kernanstown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- CW007-011----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Borlase records that ‘There are three dolmens on this hill. One [the portal tomb] is of enormous proportions, the two others [CW007-012----; CW007-011----] are smaller. . . . Of one of the latter there is a drawing and plan in Miss Stokes’s collection of drawings of dolmens. The remaining one is situated a distance of 50 yards to the N. of the latter.’ (1897, 398). It has not proved possible to locate the drawing referred to by Borlase: it is not among the Stokes’ collection preserved in the Department of Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Dublin. There is no visible trace of either of these features and they cannot, on present evidence, be accepted as the remains of megalithic tombs. (Stokes 1882, 17, Carlow Nos 2, 3; Brindley and Kilfeather 1993, 2, Nos. 7, 8)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 1 April 2019
References
Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.
Stokes, M. 1882 Carte montrant la distibution des principaux dolmens d'Irlande avec des remarques sur les monuments funéraires préhistoriques de ce pays et une liste de ces monuments, Revue Archaeologique, New Series 44, 1–22.