Savagetown

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Portal Tomb from Savagetown

The Tomb portal of Savagetown ( Irish Baile an tSabháistigh ) is located about 2.0 km west of Dunhill and west of Tramore , east of Kill in 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 location in a heavily overgrown field border makes it difficult to see the entire monument. The approximately 3.4 meter long capstone is visible, which rests on a portal stone and the southern side stone. The end stone is also present.

About 250 meters to the northeast was a 1.4 meter high menhir that was removed in the 1980s.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 20.7 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 25.5 ″  W.