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Submitted by GaelicLaird on Thursday, 16 February 2023  Page Views: 2190

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Knockmaree dolmen
Country: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 1.202 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Co. Dublin Type: Portal Tomb
Nearest Town: Dublin  Nearest Village: Chapelizod
Latitude: 53.366389N  Longitude: 6.457778W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Knockmaree dolmen submitted by dodomad : Knockmaree Dolmen with broken wedge and track marks. Photos by Cathy Norris. See comments on our main page for more details. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Portal Tomb in Co. Dublin. Likely 3300-3500BC. Quite damaged with a concrete support. In a park next to a gated house. A small road within the park leads you to a former workers house known as Knockmary Lodge. The tomb is located to the right of the lodge on the eastern side. Top photos: Cathy Norris.

Note: Knockmaree Dolmen was discovered last week with a chunk missing, and track marks visible nearby. More in the comments on our page
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Knockmaree dolmen submitted by GaelicLaird : Photo taken June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Knockmaree dolmen submitted by GaelicLaird : Several cup marks are clearly evident on the upper surface. Photo taken June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Knockmaree dolmen submitted by GaelicLaird : The large support stone. Photo taken June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Knockmaree dolmen submitted by GaelicLaird : One of the original support stones. Photo taken June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Knockmaree dolmen submitted by GaelicLaird : The modern concrete support pillar can be seen as the middle support. Photo taken June 2021.

Knockmaree dolmen
Knockmaree dolmen submitted by GaelicLaird : A small road within the park leads you to a former workers house known as Knockmary Lodge. The tomb is located to the right of the lodge on the eastern side. Photo taken June 2021.

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Knockmaree dolmen damaged by Andy B on Thursday, 16 February 2023
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The Mysterious Case of the Track Marks, the Broken Neolithic Dolmen, and Its Missing Fence by Michael Lanigan

On Friday, in the southwest corner of Phoenix Park, overlooking Chapelizod, three panels of steel fencing stood around the Knockmaree Dolmen.

Inside the temporary enclosure were four yellow parking cones and a wrap of red and white tape.

The dolmen – or cromlech – resembles a rugged, irregularly shaped park bench.

Made up of a heavy limestone slab, laid across five smaller rocks, and supported by a concrete block, the landmark is about four feet long, two high, and – save for the more recent additions – around 5,000 years old.

The fencing now up is an interim security measure after a chunk of the dolmen’s capstone broke off, says a press spokesperson for the Office of Public Works (OPW).

It had been repaired in the 1990s, they said. But they didn’t say how the stone became unattached again earlier this month.

Despite being the oldest identified human-made structure in the Chapelizod area, until now, it has been vulnerable to damage, says Peter Kavanagh, a member of the Chapelizod Heritage Society.

Members of local history and neighbourhood groups have been asking the OPW since the 1990s for better protection of the ancient site, he says.

“We had asked the OPW to put a little fence around it,” he says. “It’s important because it’s not just a stone. It represents the people of Chapelizod.”
Was It Knocked or Did It Fall?

On Monday morning, Kavanagh ascended Knockmary Hill to survey the dolmen. The thin frost on the grass was thawing as he scaled the slim and steep path leading from Park Lane up to Knockmary Lodge.

Across the surface of the dolmen’s L-shaped capstone were cracks. One of the splits, right down its centre, had been mended with concrete.

That, Kavanagh says, occurred in the 1970s. “A gang was drinking here. They lit a little fire underneath and kept throwing sticks on the fire, and it cracked the whole thing.”

Across the monument, other hairline cracks are visible. And at the corner where the latest break occurred, its absence was evidenced by a jagged square scar, silvery blue with pale yellow blotches.

A wedge of the capstone has come clean off.

The Office of Public Works’ spokesperson said its workers had inspected the dolmen. It had been repaired in the 1990s, they said. “It would appear that this repair has now failed with a small portion of the capstone […] becoming unattached.”

The OPW plans to repair the capstone with the help of the National Monument Service, the spokesperson said. In the meantime, the area has been secured with temporary fencing. More at The Dublin Inquirer
https://dublininquirer.com/2023/02/15/the-mysterious-case-of-the-track-marks-the-broken-neolithic-dolmen-and-its-missing-fence
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Re: Knockmaree dolmen by Runemage on Sunday, 25 April 2021
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockmaree_Dolmen shows this dolmen as situated in Phoenix Park 53°21′3″N 6°20′26″W

The photo on that page is called 'Knockmaroon Kist' so it may be this dolmen, or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockmaree_Dolmen#/media/File:Knockmaroon_Tomb_01.jpg
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    Re: Knockmaree dolmen by GaelicLaird on Wednesday, 30 June 2021
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    A rare trip to the capital today with some time to kill so I checked this out.

    Rune, you are correct in your comment. There is no archaeological record of a site at the location currently shown on the MP page for this tomb (a ringfort is close by, but that is a different site altogether).

    The correct location for Knockmaree is at 53.350943, -6.340730 and it is marked and can be easily seen on Google maps.

    The site is not a portal tomb but a Linkardstown burial, defined thus: "A circular mound covering a central large cist or chamber which contains an inhumed burial/burials, of usually one or two males, with distinctive decorated pottery. Radiocarbon dates for these burials centre around 3500 BC."

    The site is officially recorded as monument DU018-007011- and described in the archaeological record as follows:

    "Situated on a natural ridge overlooking the Liffey Valley, inside the Chapelizod gate at Phoenix Park. Known as 'Cnoc-Maraidhe' or 'Hill of the Mariners'. In the early 19th-century a mound stood on the site. Excavations exposed the central cist containing two crouched skeletons accompanied by a shell necklace, flint knife and bone toggle. Four small cists were also discovered, containing cremated bones and food vessels, two of which were bowls (Wood-Martin 1895, 281, Fig.74; Waddell 1970, 115; Waddell 1990, 81). All that survives today of this cemetery mound is the central megalithic cist comprising a flat slab lying on two boulders set into concrete. There are holes in the face of the stones. Ryan (1981, 142) and Brindley and Lanting (1989-90) classify this monument as a Linkardstown-type burial of Late Neolithic date."

    The National Museum of Ireland state that "the water-worn capstone is believed to have been from the River Liffey. It is 1.96 metres in length, 1.05 metres in width and 0.33 metres in depth. It is supported 0.35 metres above ground level by four slabs of 0.8 metres - 0.35 metres in width. It has a modern concrete pillar for stability. The underground chamber measures 1.2 metres in length by 0.6 metres in width with a floor of compacted clay. A small section of the capstone is missing, there are several cup-marks on top"

    Despite being an elevated flat stone in a public park in a capital city which probably serves a bench for the casual passerby it's in remarkably good condition, although a few cigarette ends and empty beer bottles were evident - most likely not prehistoric ;)

    Access is good and the site can be driven to to enable a short walk of only a few metres.





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