Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Carrickavrantry, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickavrantry
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.16563, -7.19556
- SMR number
- WA026-028----
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
Located towards the top of a gentle N-facing slope. A section of a gallery (L 3m; Wth 0.9-1.1m) with one roofstone in place opens to the SW where it faces into the corner of a field. It is within a small oval cairn. (Ó Nualláin and Walsh 1986, 26, 28)
Ó Nualláin, S. and Walsh, P. (1986) A reconsideration of the Tramore passage tombs. PPS 52, 25-9.
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: 27 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.