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'Baltinglass Hill' : Passage Tomb

TownlandBaltinglass
CountyWicklow
Grid RefS 885 892
GPSS 88547 89241 (11m)
Longitude6° 40' 57.24" W
Latitude52° 56' 48.12" N
Nearest TownBaltinglass (1.9 Km)
OS Sheet61
UTM zone29U
UTM x655703.7483036
UTM y5868855.0277421

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Looking down the passage of tomb I from within the chamber.

Photo Taken: Sunday, 22nd October 2006

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Sunday, 22nd October 2006

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Sunday, 10th March 2002

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Miscellanea

There are actually three passage tombs here, all of different designs.

B1 is a round chamber (2m diam) with walls made up by orthostats.

B2 is possibly cruciform. Hard to tell.

B3 had dry stone walls and a corbelled roof.

The carved bowl in B1 is 2m wide, 1m deep and .5m tall ... and beautiful.

There is also a later cist burial.

Random Gazetteer

A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments

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10 Km (NNE) there is a Portal Tomb at Broomfields.
5.9 Km (NNE) there is a Stone Circle at Castleruddery Lower.
4.7 Km (E) there is a Ogham Stone at Colvinstown.
5 Km (E) there is a Stone Circle at Boleycarrigeen.
6.5 Km (E) there is a Hill Figure at Keadeen known as Finn McCool And His Wife.

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