Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Ballycullane Upper, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycullane Upper
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54763, -9.32281
- SMR number
- LI017-032----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a plantation of coniferous trees. There is now no evident surface trace of the 'dolmen' excavated in 1935 by T.F. Riley on behalf of National Museum of Ireland after a polished stone axe was found 'inside the dolmen' by local school children. According to the excavator 'the most careful searching failed to reveal any trace of either artefact or skeletal material' (NMI). The sketch accompanying this report shows a capstone (gable-shaped in plan: c. 1.5m x c. 1.7m) supported along its edge by seven irregularly placed uprights. The report also mentions another 'dolmen' (LI017-034---), a 'mound' (LI017-035---) and a 'pillar stone' (LI017-036---) in the vicinity. According to local information these structures removed when the area was planted with trees in the 1970s.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.