Glencloghlea

Nearest town:
New Ross (3km E)
OS reference:
S689277
OS sheet:
76
Latitude:
52° 23' 47.81 N
Longitude:
6° 59' 15.67 W
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Image of Glencloghlea (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

The maligned, nay, reviled, Glencloghlea is not all that bad. Newross on the other hand…

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Sep 24, 2006
Image of Glencloghlea (Portal Tomb) by CianMcLiam

This is looking north I think, this used to be the ‘bad side’ according to Fourwinds pictures but has now been promoted due to the fact that the other side is now invisible.

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com
CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Aug 29, 2006

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Glencloghlea

CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Aug 29, 2006

Oh-dear oh-dear oh-dear... Almost complete ruin isn’t the last indignity for this tomb, just to add a pinch of insult it now has a tree growing out of its rear end and a thick growth of brambles and nettles on its, cough, ‘good side’. It was almost as if it knew I was only here to avoid the traffic through New Ross. A dirty pox on that nuisance of a town! Its so bad even the main road out of the town brings you back into the town at the other end, gah!! Anyway, this snivelling wreck of a monument is probably only worth visiting if you are dropped into the field after an alien abduction. I’m sure it was quite nice in a former life but alas, no more.

Folklore

Glencloghlea
Portal Tomb
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Mar 9, 2026

The Cromlech of Gleannclochliach.

There is a beautiful specimen of a cromlech on the Kilkenny side of the Barrow about 2 miles W. from New Ross. It is on the farm of Mr Cloney of Gleannclochliath. The stones – 5 supporting the top table stone – are of very large dimensions.
Mr Cloney, the owner, Mr Richard Power Shanhugh, and Mr Laurence Dooley Rosbercon were with me inspecting this cromlech. They all agreed that the top table stone could not be less than 12 tons in weight.
Mr Cloney said that when he was a child, the supporting stones, 5 in number, were all quite upright and the table stone sat quite straight on top of them. It is now tilted at somewhat a 10 to 15 degree angle, and about, as Mr Cloney says 9 inches down out of place. Two of the supporting stones have fallen owing he thinks to a slight landslide, as the cromlech is situated on a brow of a hilly field. Asked if any tradition lingered in the district about it, he said he only heard his father say that a chieftain was buried there – who or when, he did not know.
It seems to have given the name to the townsland: Glen of the Grey Stones. Mr Cloney told me that granite was found further down the glen! He got some himself.

I guess it slipped a bit more. This was written down in 1939/40 by Máire Ní Dhonnchadha (Mary Dunphy) and can be seen in the online manuscript collection at Duchas.ie.

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Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Aug 2006

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