Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Kilgowan, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgowan
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Long Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Long Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.07787, -6.76361
- SMR number
- KD032-012001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Towards the N end on a low partially quarried away esker. A tall (H. 2.3m) thin tapering granite stone (base L 0.61m; Wth 0.46m; top L 0.46m; Wth 0.3m) has a later cross incised on its SW face. While the cross may be associated with burials (KD032-012002-) discovered immediately to the N in 1987, Meagher (1936, 192) records that, ‘… 100 years ago or more, Father Lawlor and Father Cummins lived in a garden at Kilgowan cross-roads …; and it was one of these men that cut the cross on the Long Stone’. (Walshe 1931, 134)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 15 October 2013
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 7/1973).
References
Walshe, P.T. 1931 The antiquities of the Dunlavin-Donard district. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 61, 113-41.
Meagher, J. 1936, Miscellanea: Kilgowan Long Stone, County Kildare, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 66, 192.
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.