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| GAULSTOWN PORTAL TOMB |
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| PHOTO by Pip POWELL 2008 |
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| This fantastic portal tomb is located in scrub at the bottom of a steep north facing slope, at a junction with a gentler slope, 100m north-east of a head water of the Ballymoat River and is marked on the OSI map as "Dolmen". The tomb is constructed of a local stone and is complete, facing south-east into the hillside. The large rectangular capstone, measuring 4.2m in length, 2.55m in width and 1m in depth, is resting on two portal-stones and a back-stone, with two side-stones and a door-stone. A cist 8m to the south-west, may have shared the same cairn as this portal tomb but nothing remains of any cairn or mound. The tomb was first recorded by Du Noyer in 1864-6 and is now surrounded by a public enclosure and is possibly the best preserved portal tomb in County Waterford. |
| CO-ORDINATES 52 12’ 20.659”N…7 12’ 38.425”W |
