Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Baile Na Móna íochtarach, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Na Móna íochtarach
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen
- Coordinates
- 52.00389, -7.58200
- SMR number
- WA039-007----
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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 in rough pasture on top of a small headland, with sea-cliffs c. 70m to the E and c. 180m to the S. This is a gallery (L 3.95m) of two chambers with two portal-stones and a septal-stone opening to the W where there is a court (Wth 5.5m) represented by four stones. It was excavated by T.G.E. Powell (1938). The chambers had been disturbed but fragments of cremated bone, two pottery vessels, one of which was decorated, and flint flakes were recovered.
Powell, T. G. E. (1938) Excavation of a megalithic tomb at Ballynamona Lower, Co. Waterford, JRSAI 68, 260-72.
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: 17 October 2010
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 68/1938).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.