Megalithic tomb - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

On the W-facing slope of the Jerpoint Hill ridge about 1.3 km SSW of a destroyed portal tomb (KK032-009001-). The monument stands immediately E of an old trackway to the rear of the outbuildings of an abandoned farmstead and was converted for use as an animal pen. It comprises a polygonal chamber (Wth c. 2m), whose sides, with the exception of two transversely-set portal-like orthostats at the N, are composed of modern dry-stone walling. There are two orthostats (H c. 1m), the W stone leans outwards. There is a modern opening through the dry-walling on the W. The whole is covered by a roofstone (dims. 3.8m x 2.05m; T 0.55m), that rests on the orthostats and dry-stone walling. A field-wall abuts the tomb at the N and S. (Graves 1850, 130; Borlase 1897, vol. 2, 403, Knocktopher no. 2).

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 10 May 2021

References

Graves, Rev. J. 1850 Crom-leac. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1, 129-31.

Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.