Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Dangan (gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan (gowran By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52408, -7.12059
- SMR number
- KK028-049----
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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
Moore (1849, 26-7) described this structure as consisting of a large slab approximately 3.65m square resting above a number of other smaller slabs. Based on this description it was included in Borlase's work, 'The Dolmens of Ireland' (1897, 403). A report by J. Delaney to the National Museum of Ireland in 1958 concluded that this was not likely to be the remains of a megalithic tomb (SMR files). The structure was destroyed c. 1970, with no visible remains at ground level.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
References
Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.
Moore, Rev. P. 1849-51 Sepulchral remains. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1, 26-8.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.