Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Bremore, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bremore
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63020, -6.19074
- SMR number
- DU002-001002-
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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
Located near shoreline in a level field of tillage. This passage tomb is part of Bremore cemetery (Rynne 1960, 80, Mound II). The site comprises a small circular mound (max. diam. 12m; max. H 0.7m). Kerbstones were visible at N and S sides in the 1970s. Disturbed core material consists of water-rolled pebbles (Herity 1974, 209, 255). Geophysical survey (Licence no. 06R0050) of the mound did not return specific structural detail (Gimson 2006, 10). The area 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
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
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.
Collins, K. 2007 Prehistoric land use at Bremore, Co. Dublin: the evidence from fieldwalking and lithic analysis. Unpublished MA thesis. University College Dublin
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 Unpublished report.National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
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