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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Gaulstown, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Gaulstown, 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
Gaulstown
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cromlech
Latest-edition OS map
Dolmen
Coordinates
52.20575, -7.21075
SMR number
WA017-027----

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in scrub at the bottom of a steep N-facing slope, at a junction with a gentler slope. Constructed of a local stone and surviving complete facing SE into the hillside. A rectangular roofstone (dims. 4.2m x 2.55m; T 1m) is resting on two portal-stones and a backstone, with two sidestones and a sillstone. A cist (WA017-026----) c. 8m to NW may have shared the same cairn as this portal tomb. (Du Noyer 1864-6, 480; Atkins 1896, 76-77; Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 58-9; Anon. 1912, 279-80; Ó Nualláin 1983, 103; Carroll 1985, 20, 23; Harbison 1992b, 325)

Anon. (1912) Proceedings - Waterford historical sketch, JRSAI 42, 256-83.
Atkins, R. (1896) The rude stone monuments of our own and other lands. WAJ. Vol. 2, 131-61.
Borlase, W. C. (1897) The dolmens of Ireland. 3 vols. Chapman and Hall, London.
Carroll, J, S, (1985) Antiquities of Lisnakill parish. Decies, No. 30, 20-24.
Du Noyer, G. V. (1864-6) On cromleacs near Tramore in the County of Waterford; with remarks on the classification of ancient Irish earthen and megalithic structures, JRSAI, 8, 474-82.
Harbison, P. (1992b) Guide to the national and historic monuments of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan Ltd., Dublin.
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

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 82/1939).

Nearby in the register

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

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