Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Whitestown East, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitestown East
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen
- Coordinates
- 52.27512, -7.37849
- SMR number
- WA007-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of a valley, with a SW-NE stream c. 80m to the SE. It is constructed of Old Red Sandstone conglomerate. A subcircular roofstone (dims. 4m x 3.3m; T 0.4-1m) is sitting on a collapsed chamber, which was probably facing SW and is now built into the NE side of a NW-SE field bank. There are some upright stones beneath the roofstone. (Power 1911; Ó Nualláin 1983, 103)
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: 01 November 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.