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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Raheen (Iverk By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Raheen, 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
Raheen (Iverk By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.37830, -7.29603
SMR number
KK039-044----

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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 an old copse on the E side of a valley opening to the SW. It comprises a small ruined chamber (L c. 1.8m; Wth 1m), facing uphill to ENE. The entrance is formed by the N portal stone and a doorstone. The S portal has fallen outwards to the E and the S sidestone, in two pieces, leans inwards against the door-stone. The N sidestone is missing and a low line of crude dry-walling marks the edge of the chamber on this side. The W end is closed by two slabs which lean to the S; the N stone is split in two pieces. The roofstone (L 3.9m; Wth 1.9m; T 0.55m), has been displaced to the S and rests against the sidestone, door-stone and end slabs. The interior floor-level of the chamber is 2m below the capstone. There is no visible trace of a surrounding mound. (Borlase 1897, vol. 2, no. 409, Iverk no. 8; Powell 1941, 22, no. 26)

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 12 May 2021

References

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

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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