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Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

Ballinascorney Upper, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Ballinascorney Upper, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballinascorney Upper
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.21618, -6.38278
SMR number
DU024-046----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the W downslope of Seahan Mountain summit, on which stands a passage tomb (DU024:047----). A passage tomb comprises of a circular mound of gravel and stone (diam.8m; H 0.55m). This encloses a disturbed stone structure which has been interpreted as a possible cruciform chamber with a passage aligned NNW-SSE (Redmond and Mac Aonghusa 1994, 38). There is a block of quartz in front of a possible entrance (Herity 1974, 209, 256).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018

References

Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.

Redmond, M. and Mac Aonghusa, D. 1994 A passage-tomb cemetery on Seahan Mountain, Ballinascorney Upper, county Dublin. Trowel 5, 36-40.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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