The Portal Tomb or Dolmen at Kilternan or Kiltiernan, Ireland
Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, Mrs James Doyle Penrose (1859-1930)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1877
Materials
Paper
Measurements
158 x 196 mm
Order this imageCollection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781328.2
Summary
Watercolour on paper, The Portal Tomb or Dolmen at Kilternan or Kiltiernan, Ireland by Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, Mrs James Doyle Penrose (1859-1930). A large boulder burial cairn in landscape. Inscribed in black ink on page 'At Kilternan'. The Kilternan dolmen is a national monument. It dates from the late stone age, about 2500BC. A single chamber megalithic tomb. The capstone which is over 6m long, weighs over 40 tons. This is the second largest dolmen capstone in Ireland.
Makers and roles
Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, Mrs James Doyle Penrose (1859-1930), artist Priscilla Hannah Peckover (1833-1931), artist and writer