Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Sheskin (upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheskin (upperthird By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.33106, -7.44983
- SMR number
- WA003-023----
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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 at the side of a laneway, on a broad plateau at the head of a small E-W valley. Small portal tomb of conglomerate stone (H of portals 1.2m; 1.35m) facing SE. The rectangular roofstone (dims. 2.15m x 2.2m; T 0.45m) has slipped off its supporting stones, and the backstone and the NE sidestones are missing. (Grubb 1944, 177-9; Shee 1967; Ó Nualláin 1983, 102)
Grubb, I. (1944) Notes on two prehistoric burial dites in the townland of Seskin, Co. Waterford, JRSAI, 74, 176-9.
Ó Nualláin, S. (1983) Irish portal tombs: topography, siting and distribution. JRSAI 113, 102-03.
Shee, E. (1967) A portal dolmen at Sheskin, Co. Waterford. JCHAS 72, 70-1.
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
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.