Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Barrowmount, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrowmount
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Druids Altar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Druids Altar (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.62288, -6.98413
- SMR number
- KK021-029----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
At the foot of a steep slope 100m W of the River Barrow. Much of the monument is concealed beneath field debris that has been dumped there in modern times. The tomb (H 2.5m), aligned N-S, is very ruined and only one upright is now visible. A photo of the monument in the Bord Fáile archives shows a stone standing at the N end of gallery which has a gable-shaped backstone at its S end. The monument cannot be classified with certainty but appears to be related to the court/portal tomb traditions. (Prendergast 1967, 91; O'Kelly 1969, 77)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 10 May 2021
References
O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.
Prendergast, E. 1967 Book reviews. Old Kilkenny Review 19, 89-91.
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.