Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Ballylowra, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylowra
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48987, -7.18179
- SMR number
- KK032-009001-
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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 flat pasture at the W foot of Jerpoint Hill ridge about 500m E of the Little Arrigle River. The portal tomb was destroyed between 1850 and 1868. A sketch of the partly ruined monument by Rev. J. Graves (1850, facing 130) shows it as comprising a displaced roofstone, (dims. 3.65m x 2.6m; T 0.9m), resting against two portal stones and a door-stone. A number of other large slabs lay immediately beside the monument. This megalithic tomb is not visible at ground level. (Graves 1850, 130; du Noyer 1868, 43; Borlase 1897, vol. 2, 403, Knocktopher no. 1; Ó Nualláin 1983, 97, no. 2).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 10 May 2021
References
Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.
Du Noyer, G.V. 1868 Remarks on a class of cromleacs for which the name “primary” or “earthfast” is proposed. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 10, 40-46.
Ó Nualláin, S. 1983 Irish portal tombs, topography, siting and distribution. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 75-105.
Graves, Rev. J. 1850 Crom-leac. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1, 129-31.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.