Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Rath (upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath (upperthird By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.32523, -7.39067
- SMR number
- WA003-031----
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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 pasture on a broad plateau. Marked 'Cromlech' on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and described by O'Donovan c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 32) as a long, flat stone supported on three uprights with another broken upright to one side. It may have survived until 1907 (Power 1906a, 252), but it has since disappeared without trace.
O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray.
Power, Rev. P. (1906a) The place-names of the Decies WAJ 9, 12-39, 80-106, 154-70, 228-65.
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
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.