Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Ballyquin (upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyquin (upperthird By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromlechs
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen
- Coordinates
- 52.31249, -7.39689
- SMR number
- WA003-049----
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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 the floor of a NW-SE valley. It is constructed of conglomerate stones and faces NE (uplsope). The triangular roofstone (dims. 4.15m x 2.5m; T 0.45-1.1m) has its broad but thinner end resting on two portal-stones (at NW: dims. 1.17m x 0.4m; H 1.5m; at SE: dims. 0.8m x 0.56m; H 1.5m), but no other structural stones are present. The portal-stones are unusually aligned across the main of the capstone. The site of a second possible dolmen (WA003-050----) is c. 50m to E. (Ó Nualláin 1983, 102)
Ó Nualláin, S. (1983) Irish portal tombs: topography, siting and distribution. JRSAI 113, 102-03.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload/revision: 20 October 2010
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.