Chambered grave,

Ballygraffan, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: Mausoleum
Date of construction: Pre 1600
Address: Chambered grave,, near Edenville,, 106 Killinchy Road,, Ballygraffan,, Comber,, Co. Down,, BT23 5NE
Townland: Ballygraffan
Council: Ards and North Down
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.52479, -5.71918
Date of survey: 22 April 1999
HB reference: HB24/15/052

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Prehistoric chambered cairn in the middle of a field to the E of the Killinchy Road, c.2 miles S of Comber. The cairn now simply appears as a collection of various sized basalt boulders grouped together in a rough oval formation. At least one boulder has been added to the collection in recent times and the whole grouping looks as if it has been rearranged.

SMR No.DOW 10:36

Historical information

This chambered cairn is of the type believed to date from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Its component stones appear to have been disrupted at some point and at least one boulder has been added to the collection in recent years.

References- Secondary sources
1 ‘Ulster Journal of Archaeology’ Vol.20 (1957), pp.35-6. [Article concerning the cairn by A.E.P. Collins.]
2 ‘Archaeological Survey of Co. Down’ (Belfast HMSO 1966), pp.78-79.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Prehistoric chambered cairn in the middle of a field, whose component boulders appear to have been rearranged with at least one new stone added recently.

Nearby in the register

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

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