Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Owning, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Owning
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Druids Altar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Druids Altar
- Coordinates
- 52.39066, -7.34043
- SMR number
- KK035-053----
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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
On the E side and near the mouth of the narrow river valley that runs between the two hills N of Owning. Comprising a ruined chamber facing SSE represented by a broken W portal, a door-stone, the W sidestone and a leaning-in backstone. The E portal is prostate and the adjoining E sidestone is displaced. The roofstone (L 2.9m; Wth 2.5m; T 0.5m), has been dislodged to the W and its upper end rests on the backstone and W sidestone. A large slab beside the tomb to the S may be the broken upper portion of the W portal. Fogarty records that the monument was intact until c. 1825-30 and that the roofstone 'rested level on 7 large flags' (c. 1850, 21, 54). (Fogarty c. 1850, 21, 54; Borlase 1897, vol. 2, 408, Iverk no. 3; Powell 1941, 22, no. 25; Ó Nualláin 1983, 97, no. 3)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
References
Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.
Powell, T.G.E. 1941a Megalithic tombs in South-East Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 71, 9-23.
Ó Nualláin, S. 1983 Irish portal tombs, topography, siting and distribution. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 75-105.
Fogarty, J. 1851-2 Account of antiquities in and around the barony of Iverk, Co. Kilkenny. Manuscript: Department of Irish Folklore, National University of Ireland, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
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