Home

Who
What
Where
When
Why
Knockmaridhe Linkardstown Burial
 

County

Dublin

Coordinates

N 53° 21' 03.5"   W 006° 20' 26.6"

Nearest town

Dublin

Grid Ref.

O 10547 34673

Map No.

50

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

43

Date of visit

Sunday 9 June 2013

GPS Accuracy (m)

3
Show Google Map              Show Monuments in the area

    
    
 
PREVIOUS      NEXT
The tomb from the south-southeast. The keeper's cottage is in the background, behind the hedge.


This is the first tomb of this kind that we visited. It's quite easily accessible, inside Phoenix Park on the east side of the keeper's cottage not far from the St. Mary's Hospital.
It's a very small tomb. It measures 1.94 metres of length along the northeast-southwest (42°-222°) axis, it's 1.02 metres wide and 70 centimetres tall. The capstone is 34 centimetres thick and has a hollow that measures 40 x 25 centimetres on the southeast (116°) side. Its surface presents several cupmarks of about 8 centimetres of diameter. On the east side of the edge of the capstone there are two holes which are 8 centimetres deep and with a diameter of 4 centimetres.
The capstone is broken in two or three points with very visible cracks and it has been reconstructed. It's supported by four short stones and a concrete pillar. Other small stones lie around the tomb.
The dating of this monument is controversial, but it could date to around 3,000 BC. It was discovered in 1838 by some workmen called over the place to remove an ancient tumulus. Inside the tomb the archaeologists found the remains of two male burials in crouched position, along with a flint blade, a shell necklace and a bone toggle, which was an item used to fasten clothes.
Unfortunately the position of this tomb so close to where people gather makes the place a dump, and before we could take our photos we had to remove the dozens of broken beer bottles, chips packages, paper, cigarettes butts, bottle caps, and so on, around and inside the monument.


Browse by Monument Type
Browse by County
Browse by Date of Visit
Browse by Map Number

A-Z List

Clickable Counties
Clickable OS Maps Grid

Find a Map

Multimap

The days before GPS

The Stones in the Movies

Glossary
Links
Guestbook
FAQ

What's NEW?


Search


Site view counter: 21756802

Copyright © 1994-2024 Antonio D'Imperio
All the photos, the graphics and the texts on this website are automatically copyrighted to me under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886. Any violation of the copyright will be pursued according to the applicable laws.

info@irishstones.org

Powered by AxeCMS/CustomEngine(V0.25.00 build 999) by Sergio "Axeman" Lorenzetti. (C) 2009-2015

counter