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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Kilmashogue, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Kilmashogue, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilmashogue
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Dolmen
Coordinates
53.25222, -6.28183
SMR number
DU025-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the grounds of Larch Hill on gently sloping pasture near the valley bottom W of Kilmashogue Mountain. A megalithic tomb in a collapsed condition with a ruined chamber facing uphill to the E. One of the portal stones, almost square in section, still stands (H 2.5m). The collapsed roofstone covers the chamber (L 3.8m; Wth 2.65m; D 0.7m). There are a number of large collapsed stones lying close to these structural stones. Borlase (1897, 2, 394-5) describes a circle of stones which is not apparent today (Turner 1983, 6-7; Anon.1914, 225-6; Price 1940, 124).
Complied by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 8 July 2018

References

Turner, K. 1983 If you seek monuments: a guide to the antiquities of the barony of Rathdown. Rathmichael Historical Society.

Price, L. 1940 The Antiquities and Place Names of South County Dublin. Dublin Historical Record 2, 121-133.

Anon. 1914e South County Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 223-88.

Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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