Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - wayside cairn
Rathbeagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbeagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dowlings Monument
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dowlings Monument
- Coordinates
- 52.75492, -7.35752
- SMR number
- KK009-047----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On the broad flat floor of the Nore river valley, on the S side of a road. It is described in the OS Letters (1839) as, 'a heap of stones and seven old white thorn trees growing round it; this they call Leacht Dubhluing, i.e., Dubhluing's Heap or Monument, but they know nothing of its origin. (It is the burial place of Dubhluing O'Brenan, 3rd p. of Idough. He died in 954 - Four Masters)' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 89 (30)). When visited in 1987 there was an overgrown area where the road verge widens out with a single thorn tree but no obvious cairn was visible.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 6 February 2018
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.