Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Island (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Island (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06731, -8.58044
- SMR number
- CO042-056002-
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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
Grove White (1905-25, vol. 1, 328) was informed by landowner of wedge tomb (9820) that '42 paces' to SW 'in the same field, there was another cromlech, taken down about 1877. It was about 8 feet square. The stones were very brittle, and showed signs of having been burnt. The earth around was black, showing charcoal remains'. No visible surface trace.
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
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.