Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Ballinascorney Upper, County Dublin, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 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 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.
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