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Megalithic tomb - court tomb

Farnoge, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Farnoge, 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
Farnoge
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.35024, -7.11870
SMR number
KK040-020001-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the NE flank of Tory Hill on the W side of a shallow valley, within an overgrown triangular area (Wth 22m at SW) of uncultivated land. Consisting of two very ruined back-to-back galleries (L c. 15m), aligned NE - SW. Each gallery appears to have been divided into two chambers. The SW gallery is 5m long and its front portion is destroyed. The rear chamber is represented by a gable-shaped backstone, two sidestones and two opposing, inset jamb-stones. There is a single surviving N sidestone of the second chamber to the SW. Beyond this a field bank crosses the monument. The NE gallery (L 6m) is more disturbed but was of similar construction to the other. The rear chamber is represented by the backstone, a single N sidestone and two opposing, inset jambs-stones. Only two stones of the N side of the chamber to the NE survive. The outermost may be a longitudinally-set entrance jamb or portal. A distance of 1.7m separates the backstones of the galleries. Though no evidence of a court survives the general design is clearly indicative of the monument being the remains of a dual court tomb. (de Valéra and Ó Nualláin 1962, 117-23)

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 12 May 2021

References

de Valera, R. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1962 A court cairn in Co. Kilkenny. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 92, 117-23.

Nearby in the register

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

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