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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Knocknabansha, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Knocknabansha, County Tipperary North, 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
Knocknabansha
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Cromlech
Coordinates
52.69128, -8.12970
SMR number
TN039-007----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

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

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