Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Montpelier, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Montpelier
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25168, -6.32986
- SMR number
- DU025-001002-
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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
This passage tomb and its adjacent companion (DU025-001001-) are located on the crest of Montpellier Hill, just SE of a ruinous hunting lodge called the Hell Fire Club (DU025-001003-). The monument enjoys panoramic views N and E with those to the S and W somewhat restricted by forestry. These passage tombs are part of a cluster of passage tombs situated largely along the N and W perimeter slopes of the Dublin and Wicklow mountains.
All that survives of this monument are traces of a denuded cairn topped with a trigonometric station (diam. 18m) (Herity 1974, 257; Price 1942, 66 Healy 1875, 1-19).
Compiled by: Margaret Keane and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018
References
Jackman N. 2016 Preliminary Report on Excavation 16E0497 Montpelier Hill, Co. Dublin. Unpublished Report, Abarata Heritage, Dublin.
Healy, P. 1975b Third report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha, Dublin.
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An eighteenth-century antiquary: the sketches, notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper, 1759-1880. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.