Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ballygowan (reade), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygowan (reade)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44902, -7.33456
- SMR number
- KK031-112----
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
Visible on satellite imagery (Tailte Éireann, satellite imagery 2011-2013 Digital Globe) and on Google Earth Street View, imagery date April 2009). There is a ritual pond (KK031-111----) c. 120m to the SE, a standing stone (KK031-113----) c. 470m to the E and a ring-barrow (KK035-007----) lies c. 1.3km to the SE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - pondunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.