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Megalithic structure

Dangan (Gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic structure, Dangan, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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