Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Gurteen Lower, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gurteen Lower
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen
- Coordinates
- 52.35830, -7.61420
- SMR number
- WA002-005----
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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 woodland on the floodplain of the River Suir. A portal tomb is oriented E-W and constructed of sandstone boulders. The rectangular capstone has slipped off the portal-stones, and the S sidestone is displaced and now lies across the septal-stone, while the S portal-stone has fallen forward. The N portal-stone (H 2.2m) and the N sidestone (H 1.7m) are undisturbed. (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 56; Ó Nualláin 1983, 102)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008
References
Ó Nualláin, S. 1983 Irish portal tombs, topography, siting and distribution. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 75-105.
Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.