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Ballynageeragh Portal Tomb is in County Waterford, Prehistoric Ireland.
Llewellynn Jewitt 1870. Other excellent examples of Irish cromlechs and chambers are those at Monasterboise ("Calliagh Dirras House") [Map]; Drumloghan (full of Oghams) [Map]; Kells; Knockeen [Map] (figs. 47 and 48); where the right supporting stones are six in number, and arranged rectangularly, so as to form a distinct chamber at the S.E. end, the large covering stone being 12 feet inches by 8 feet, and weighing about four tons, and the smaller one about half that size; Gaulstown [Map] (figs. 49 and 50, the inner chamber of which measures 7 feet by 6 feet 4 inches, and is seven feet in height); Ballynageerah [Map] (figs. 51, 52, and 53), the capstone of which is cleverly and curiously poised on two only of the upright stones, as will be seen by the engravings1; Howth, Shandanagh, Brennanstown, Glencullen, Kilternan, Mount Brown, Rath-kenny, Mount Venus, and Knock Mary, Phoenix Park, as well as at many omer places.
Note 1. For the loan of these seven engravings I am indebted to the Council of the "Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland," (formerly the "Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeo'ogical Society,") in whose journal one of the most valuable of antiquarian publications they have appeared. This Association is one of the most useful that has ever been established, and deserves the best support, not only of Irish, but of English antiquaries.
Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society Volume 5 1866 Pages 476-482. The third example (Plates III, and IV.) I have tp offer is that of the cromleac in the townland of Ballynageeragh [Ballynageeragh Portal Tomb [Map]], county of Waterford, and not very distant from that last described.
This structure as viewed from the S. E. has a most singular appearance, owing to the form of the covering' stone, and the skilful manner in which it is poised on two supports ; that at the S. W. or raised end being an upright slab ; the other, to the N. E., being a rounded flat stone laid on the ends of the remaining three stones forming the chamber (see plan).
The large table stone measures 12 feet x 8 feet, with an average thickness of one foot, and may therefore be about 3 tons in weight ; and at its most elevated *or N. W. end it is 6 feet from the present level of the ground. The chamber beneath is simply rectangular in plan, the stones forming it being all inclined inwards, as shown in the view, looking N. E.
