Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Brownstown (ida By., Dysartmoon Ed), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownstown (ida By., Dysartmoon Ed)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK037-036----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described in 1849 as being on the E slope of a hill near the wood of Brownstown. It comprised 'a deep trench about twelve feet [3.65m] long by four and a half [1.37m] in width, lying nearly north and south, in a level field, unaccompanied by any barrow or artificial elevation of the ground. Its bottom is carefully floored, not flagged, but the clay trodden or beaten hard, and the sides and ends were lined with large upright stones of coarse flags; but is was seriously injured about five years since by an ignorant farmer of the neighbourhood who dug our and carried off the greater portion of the side flags . . . . The surrounding peasantry generally call this monument, in Irish, "the tomb of the long man"' (Moore 1849, 11-12). There is no local knowledge of the existence of this structure and its precise location is unknown. (Borlase 1897, vol. 2, 410, Ida no. 1)
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.
Moore, Rev. P. 1849-51 Giants' graves. No. I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1, 11-14.