Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Knocknabansha, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknabansha
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Coordinates
- 52.69128, -8.12970
- SMR number
- TN039-007----
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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 in a small clearing in a plantation on the western slope of Knocknabansha Hill. It consists of the remains of a gallery aligned SW-NE, now 2.1m long and some 0.7m wide, formed by two opposed sidestones and a septal-stone outside the SW end of the more southerly sidestone may represent a doubling of the gallery wall. A slight depression in the ground extending about 1.5m beyond the E end of the structure may indicate that the gallery was originally longer. There are a number of displaced stones at the site. (De Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 89, No.8)
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.