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Megalithic structure

Ballyquin (Upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic structure, Ballyquin, 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
Ballyquin (Upperthird By.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cromlechs
Latest-edition OS map
Dolmen (Site of)
Coordinates
52.31253, -7.39602
SMR number
WA003-050----

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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 in pasture on the floor of a NW-SE valley. Marked on the 1840 and 1926 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Its existence is known only from Blackett (1851, 496) and O'Donovan c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 32) who describe it as similar in structure to Ballyquin portal tomb (WA003-049----) c. 50m to W but with a larger roofstone (dims. c. 4.5m x 2.5m; T c. 1.5m). One of the two portal-stones had fallen over and no other structural stones seem to have been present. It may have been a portal tomb, but it has since been removed.

Blackett, W. R. (1851) Antiquities in the County of Waterford. JRSAI 1, 496-500.
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.
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.

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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