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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Sheskin (Upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Sheskin, County Waterford, 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
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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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 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

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

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