Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Kilmaclenine, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmaclenine
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.20127, -8.70786
- SMR number
- CO024-056001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as square area (c. 30m sq.) defined by dotted line and named 'Acuthoge'; hachured on 1905 OS 6-inch map as circular mound (diam. c. 30m) and named 'Acuthoge'; named 'carn' on 1937 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, in gently rolling countryside. Roughly circular grass-covered cairn (c. 34m N-S; c. 30m E-W; max. H c. 1.5m) with wedge tomb (CO024-05602-) in centre; heavily quarried. According to Brash (1843, 272) opened c. 1838 by Rev. Connery, parish priest of Buttevant; subsequently ransacked and large quantities of cairn material removed (resulting H c. 5-6m); composed of 'earth and small rubble' . Mound unusually large for wedge tomb and could be 'secondary feature' where cairn of wedge tomb has been enlarged and re-used for later burials (de Valera and O'Nualláin 1982, 1).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.