Ballynageeragh

Nearest town:
Tramore (7km E)
OS reference:
S495031
OS sheets:
75, 82
Latitude:
52° 10' 39.48 N
Longitude:
7° 16' 34.69 W
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Images

Image of Ballynageeragh (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

The portals are missing and the capstone rests on the doorstone.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 16, 2018
Image of Ballynageeragh (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

The Archaeology Inventory description is below.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 16, 2018
Image of Ballynageeragh (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

Conservation kinda worked here. I guess it’s better than Savagetown up the road, but only just.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 16, 2018
Image of Ballynageeragh (Portal Tomb) by bogman

So close Dunhill portal tomb couldn’t resist going back for a look, this is one weird looking tomb

(Earlier pic was an error)

Image credit: Charles Coughlan
bogman
bogman Oct 17, 2011
Image of Ballynageeragh (Portal Tomb) by muller

Ballynageereagh Portal Tomb is one of Waterfords many great tombs well worth a visit.

Image credit: tmulraney
muller
muller Oct 17, 2011
Image of Ballynageeragh (Portal Tomb) by CianMcLiam

Just doesn’t look right at any angle but a bit of sunset tones makes up for its inadequacies

Image credit: Ken Williams (CianMcLiam)
CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Apr 8, 2005
Image of Ballynageeragh (Portal Tomb) by CianMcLiam

Snail eye view from the south side, 26-3-05.

Image credit: Ken Williams (CianMcLiam)
CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Mar 27, 2005

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Ballynageeragh

C
CARL Jun 1, 2011

Visited 18.5.11
Stop number 5 on the Tramore ‘Dolmen Drive’.
This tomb took a bit of finding but we got there in the end. Situated in the middle of a field to the right of a minor road to the north of Ballynageeragh village (which has the dolman painted on its pub sign!)
Although the tomb has been ‘restored’ with concrete around the base of the uprights and a wall built at one end, don’t be put off as this is a nice place to visit. The wall states that the tomb was restored by P Murray and Sons 1940)
There is a small info board.

Miscellaneous

Ballynageeragh
Portal Tomb
ryaner
ryaner Aug 16, 2018

From archaeology.ie:

Description: Situated in pasture on a broad plateau with a slight E-facing slope. An oval roofstone (dims. 4m x 2.65m; T 0.7m) is resting on the septal-slab and the backstone with a cushion-stone between the roofstone and the backstone. The tomb, which faces SW, lacks portal-stones but the sidestones are present. It was investigated and conserved in 1939-40 when cremated bone, flint and charcoal were found in the chamber (Herity 1964). (Du Noyer 1864-6, 480; Atkins 1896, 68-9; Ó Nualláin 1983, 103; Harbison 1992, 325)

The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of upload/revision: 13th May 2011.

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 63/1938).

References:

1. Atkins, R. 1896 The rude stone monuments of our own and other lands. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 2, 60-80, 131-61.
2. Du Noyer, G.V. 1864-6 On cromleacs near Tramore in the County of Waterford; with remarks on the classification of ancient Irish earthen and megalithic structures. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 8, 474-82.
3. Harbison, P. 1992 Guide to the national and historic monuments of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan Ltd., Dublin.
4. Herity, M. 1964 The finds from the Irish portal dolmens. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 94, pt. 2, 123-44.
5. Ó Nualláin, S. 1983 Irish portal tombs, topography, siting and distribution. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 75-105.

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