placenamesAbington
Mainistir Uaithne
A prehistoric monument records burial, careful construction and later changes within the Tipperary portion of Abington.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Mainistir Uaithne · Irish · main form · validated name
- Abington · English · main form
Place & story
The excavation of 1959
Michael J. O’Kelly excavated Baurnadomeeny’s wedge tomb over eight weeks in summer 1959. His report places it in Abington parish, County Tipperary. Excavation exposed double walls and upright buttressing slabs, packed with smaller stones and compacted soil to support the chamber. Cremated remains occurred inside the tomb and beneath its surrounding cairn. Disturbed deposits limited what could be learned from the main chamber. [2]
Conservation after excavation
O’Kelly recorded adding clean soil over the exposed bases of the chamber stones and restoring packing around the walls. Fallen kerbstones were straightened and cairn material replaced. These documented interventions help explain the monument’s later appearance without treating every visible stone arrangement as untouched prehistoric work. [2]
A name on the old maps
The report records the Ordnance Survey name Dermod and Grania’s Bed for the tomb. That is evidence of its association with the legendary lovers, rather than identification of their historical burial place. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Coordinates
- 52.70059, -8.20896
- Mapped area
- 44.5 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2155 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Abington. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- A wedge-shaped gallery grave at Baurnadomeeny, Co. Tipperary, JCHAS65(202), 1960, pages85–115 · Michael J. O’Kelly, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.