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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Ballyhenebery, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Ballyhenebery, 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
Ballyhenebery
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.36837, -7.34736
SMR number
KK038-009----

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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

In rolling farmland that slopes gently to the SW to a tributary stream of the Pill River. The tomb is partly incorporated in a fence on the N side of a lane. The remains comprise a ruined chamber facing N, represented by two portal stones (H 1.7m) and a door-stone; the W portal leans markedly outwards. A single W sidestone, also leaning outwards, stands beside it to the S. Its S end is partly embedded in the trunk of a tree. The large roofstone (L 5m; Wth 3.5m; T 0.7m), rests on the door-stone and E portal. There is no evidence for a surrounding cairn or mound. It may be concealed beneath the field clearance that has been dumped on either side of the monument. (Borlase 1897, vol. 2, 408, Iverk no. 5; Carrigan 1905, 247; Powell 1941, 22, no. 27; Ó Nualláin 1983, 98, no. 7)

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 10 May 2021

References

Ó Nualláin, S. 1983 Irish portal tombs, topography, siting and distribution. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 75-105.

Powell, T.G.E. 1941a Megalithic tombs in South-East Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 71, 9-23.

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

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

Nearby in the register

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

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