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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Ballybrittas, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Ballybrittas, County Wexford, 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
Ballybrittas
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cromlech
Latest-edition OS map
Cromlech
Coordinates
52.42867, -6.63642
SMR number
WX031-010----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight rise on a S-facing slope at the S foot of Bree Hill. This is a complete portal tomb facing E and consists of two portal stones (H 2.1m; 1.85m), two sidestones, a backstone, sillstone and a large roofstone (dims. 3.8m x 3.6m; T 0.75m). (Borlase 1897, vol. 2, 416 17; Grattan Flood 1912, 13 14; Ó Nualláin 1983, 103)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). 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 August, 2012

References

Ó Nualláin, S. 1983b Irish portal tombs: topography, siting and distribution. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 143.

Flood, W.H. Grattan 1912 County Wexford Dolmens. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 42, 13-17.

Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.

Nearby in the register

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

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