Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Knockcurraghbola Commons, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockcurraghbola Commons
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68494, -8.08561
- SMR number
- TN039-037----
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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
Sited just 200m S of wedge tomb (TN039-017) in a prominent position on a hillock in upland pasture. The remains are scant perhaps because of deliberate disturbance that may account for a subcircular depression measuring some 7m x 6m and at least 0.3m deep on top of the hillock. At the northern edge of the depression there is a low orthostat aligned WNW-ESE. It is 1.45m long, 0.15m thick and slopes from 0.65m high at its more westerly end to 0.15m at the opposite end. Some 0.5m S of this there is a prostrate slab 1.6m in maximum dimension while 5-7m to the SW there are three irregularly spaced stones, possibly representing a kerb. The diminution in height of the orthostat from W to E would suggest it could be the surviving remnant of the gallery side or outer-wall of a wedge tomb.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.