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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Killonerry, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Killonerry, 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
Killonerry
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.36855, -7.38988
SMR number
KK038-005----

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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

On a level shoulder on the E slope of the Lingaun river valley. The monument is very ruined and comprises a roofstone (L 3.75m; Wth 3m; T 0.9m), resting above a displaced orthostat, probably a sidestone. Modern field debris has been dumped around it. Fogarty records that it 'stood on 4 pillars about 3 foot [c. 0.9m]above ground' (c. 1850, 1). (Borlase 1897, vol. 2, 409, Iverk no. 7; Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 247; Mason 1814, 364; Fogarty c. 1850, 1; Powell 1941, 22, no. 28; Ó Nualláin 1983, 97, no. 6)

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 12 May 2021

References

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.

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

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

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.

Mason, W.S. 1814-19 A statistical account or parochial survey of Ireland, 3 vols. Dublin. Faulkner-Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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