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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Ballylowra, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Ballylowra, 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
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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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

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

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

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