Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Grange Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61869, -7.00529
- SMR number
- KK025-010----
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
In tillage. Powerstown River flows roughly E-W c. 150m to the S. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) with a field boundary running ESE-WNW along the N perimeter and another running roughly N-S along the W perimeter. On the 1900 revision neither the enclosure or the field boundaries are indicated, suggesting that they were removed between 1839 and 1900. A cist (KK025-009----) was discovered during ploughing in 1962 either within or in the immediate vicinity of the levelled enclosure (Prendergast 1962, 18-21). This suggests that the cist and enclosure are associated and, if so, that the enclosure is a levelled barrow.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 28 February 2022
References
Prendergast, E. 1962 Prehistoric grave near Gowran. Old Kilkenny Review 14, 18-21.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.