Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Bremore, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bremore
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mound
- Coordinates
- 53.63025, -6.19115
- SMR number
- DU002-001001-
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the coast at the mouth of the river Delvin. This passage tomb is part of Bremore cemetery (Rynne 1960, 79, Mound I). It comprises a circular cairn which is heavily grassed over (max. diam. 29m; H 3.5m). Possible kerbstones on W side. Disturbance at NW may indicate the remains of a collapsed passage and chamber (Herity 1974, 209, 255).
Best preserved of the mounds (I-V), it appears the mound had been perfectly conical 'until the 1940s when the Board of Works took stone from it to paint Eire in white along the cliff edge of the headland-as part of the Emergency Defenses'. This is according to the current owners, whose father owned the land at the time, and told them this is how the interior of the mound was collapsed. However cartographic evidence indicates there may have been collapse/quarrying of the mound in the previous century.
Geophysical survey (Licence no. 06R0050) of the mound did not return specific structural detail (Gimson 2006, 10). It did however show a drainage pipe had been inserted immediately to the east. The Bremore headland was also subject to a constraint study carried out by Margaret Gowen & Company Ltd. in advance of a proposed port. In addition fieldwalking and lithic analysis was undertaken for an MA study (Collins, 2007).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 16 April 2015
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 27/1976).
References
Gimson H. 2006 Archaeological Geophysical Survey: Bremore Townland, Balbriggan, Fingal (Licence No. 06R050). Unpublished report.National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Collins, K. 2007 Prehistoric land use at Bremore, Co. Dublin: the evidence from fieldwalking and lithic analysis. Unpublished MA thesis. University College Dublin
Rynne, E. 1960 Survey of a probable passage grave cemetery at Bremore, Co. Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 90, 79-81.
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
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