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Gaulstown Portal Tomb

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Gaulstown Portal Tomb
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Gaulstown Portal Tomb is an archaeological place in County Waterford, Ireland. Built around 3500 BC, the Neolithic monument sits at the foot of Cnoc an Chaillighe and faces south east into the hillside. Two east-facing portal stones rise 2.4 metres, framing a door stone and a chamber of three upright stones that support a 4.2 metre rectangular capstone. George Du Noyer first recorded the tomb in 1864, preserving one of the finest regional examples of this burial type.
Gaulstown Portal Tomb is recorded as a archaeological place in County Waterford. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

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