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Portal tomb in Sheskin (upperthird By.) is a portal tomb in Sheskin (upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland. It stands at the side of a laneway on a broad plateau at the head of a small east-west valley. The small conglomerate structure faces southeast, with two surviving portals reaching 1.2 metres and 1.35 metres. Its rectangular roofstone measures 2.15 metres by 2.2 metres and is 0.45 metres thick, but it has slipped from its supports while the backstone and northeast sidestones are missing.

Situated at the side of a laneway, on a broad plateau at the head of a small E-W valley. Small portal tomb of conglomerate stone (H of portals 1.2m; 1.35m) facing SE. The rectangular roofstone (dims. 2.15m x 2.2m; T 0.45m) has slipped off its supporting stones, and the backstone and the NE sidestones are missing. (Grubb 1944, 177-9; Shee 1967; Ó Nualláin 1983, 102) Grubb, I. (1944) Notes on two prehistoric burial dites in the townland of Seskin, Co. Waterford, JRSAI, 74, 176-9. Ó Nualláin, S. (1983) Irish portal tombs: topography, siting and distribution. JRSAI 113, 102-03. Shee, E. (1967) A portal dolmen at Sheskin, Co. Waterford. JCHAS 72, 70-1. 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. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

Portal tomb, Late Neolithic period (c. 2500–2000 BCE). This tomb is significant as a small but well-preserved example of a portal tomb, a type characteristic of the later Neolithic in Ireland, often associated with ritual and burial practices.

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