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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Owning, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Owning, 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
Owning
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.40389, -7.33637
SMR number
KK035-096----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Approximately 7m N of a motte (KK035-038----) on a level shoulder on the E side and at the head of a narrow river valley that runs between the two hills N of Owning. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 249) describes it as being '17ft. [c. 5m] long and about 3ft. [c. 0.9m] wide. Some of the stones are in situ, others fallen, but lying as they fell. . . now generally called the "Giant's Grave"'. The monument was destroyed between 1974 and 1982. Only an E end stone and adjoining N sidestone of a gallery remained in 1974. Two orthostats stood immediately N of this and formed a doubling of the gallery wall. It would seem probable that the monument was a megalithic tomb and interpretation of the remains as the E end of a wedge tomb gallery would not be inconsistent with the evidence. (Prendergast 1967, 91; O'Kelly 1969, 132 (under Curraghmore))

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 12 May 2021

References

O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Prendergast, E. 1967 Review of Survey of the Megalithic tombs of Ireland; vol. I, Co. Clare. R. de Valera and S. Ó Nualláin (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961). Old Kilkenny Review 19, 89-91.

Nearby in the register

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

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