Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
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
- 52.48820, -7.18325
- SMR number
- KK032-010----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
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.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.