Portal Tomb by Dunhill
The Portal Tomb of Dunhill ( Irish Dún Aill ) is located on a pasture, on a steep southeast slope in the valley of the Annestown River, not far from the Portal Tombs of Ballynageeragh , in the Copper Coast Geopark in the south of County Waterford in Ireland . In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
The Tomb portal is marked as “ Dolmen ” on the OSI map . The approximately 4.0 m long, 2.7 m wide and 1.2 m thick capstone is supported by a single portal stone. The other portal stone is in the chamber, which is filled with other stones and small field stones.
See also
literature
- Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other monuments of early Ireland . Appletree, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 10 '9.3 " N , 7 ° 15' 54.4" W.