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Ballyquin: Portal-tomb and Ogam-stone
This picturesque small portal-tomb is NW of a holy well by the roadside and 200 metres N of the road. Its capstone is 3.6 metres long by 2.4 metres broad and just over 1 metre thick. It is supported at the front end by two portal-stones 1.5 metres high. No other structural stones survive.
~ 1.5 km NE of the tomb, behind a gatepost on the W side of the by-road running S from Piquet's Crossroads is a 2.4 metre high ogam stone which reads CATABAR MOCO BIRIQORB - which may mean 'Battle-head tribesman of Chariot-man' .
Drumlohan: Ogam-stones
5.5 km SW of Kilmnacthomas, across 3 fields to the E of the road to Stradbally are the remains of a souterrain which was part of a monastic site and which, not untypically, used 10 old ogam stones as roof-lintels. Some of these have now been erected above ground, and are handsome.
~ 50 metres SSE of the souterrain is a bullaun-stone.
Harristown: Passage-tomb
About 150 metres E of a by-road, on top of a low hill about 600 metres N of Fairybush Crossroads, this low tomb commands a fine view and is the most impressive of a group of County Waterford passage-tombs which resemble those of the Scilly Isles off Cornwall in that the chamber and the passage are one. The wedge-shaped passage/chamber and the partial doubling of the side walls in this example show some influence from wedge-tombs. Only 2 roofstones survive. The sepulchre is surrounded by remains of its cairn, and a kerb of orthostats broken at the entrance to the passage/chamber in which there is a low sill-stone.
~ 15.4 kms W by S is Matthewstown passage-tomb (below) .
Kiltera: Ogam-stone
In a graveyard to the E of a by-road, 1.5 km S of Villierstown stand two ogam stones with inscriptions referring to the god Lug, which the excavator (in 1934) deemed to be pre-Christian.
They read: COLLABOT MUCOI LUGA MAQI LOBACCONA (Collabot son of Lug son of Lobchu) and MEDUSI MUCOI LUGA .
Matthewstown: Passage-tomb
About 800 metres up a lane leading S of a by-road, in a field to the W, this tomb has a wedge-shaped passage which is also a chamber formed by 10 low orthostats, and retains three fine large roofstones. The site commands fine views.
~ 15.4 kms E by N is a similar tomb at Harristown (above). |
