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| ARDCRONEY LINKARDSTOWN BURIAL |
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| PHOTO by Pip POWELL 2009 |
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| This Linkardstown Burial Tomb is situated on level ground, just west of the village of Ardcrony, County Tipperary. The burial chamber is exposed in a partly demolished round cairn, now 20m in diameter but was originally about 33m in diameter. The chamber, 1.75m in length, 1.4m in width and 0.7m in height, is polygonal in plan and orientated N-S and is centrally placed in the cairn. An inward-leaning slab forms each of its sides, two upright stones form each end and a large, single slab forms the roof. The chamber was subsequently excavated by Wallace in 1977 and the skeletons of two males and a decorated pottery vessel were found on the paved floor of the chamber. A bone from one of the skeletons yielded a radiocarbon determination corresponding to a calendar date 3,500 BC. |
| CO-ORDINATES 52 56' 17.395"N...8 9' 25.936"W |