Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Glantane East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glantane East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.00367, -9.04483
- SMR number
- CO048-092----
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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
On level tract of partly cleared bogland on E side of Keel River valley at W end of Boggeragh Mountains. Comprises remains of gallery (L c. 2.2m; Wth 1.25m at W end) aligned E-W. Gallery sides are incomplete. Single opposing sidestones survive to N and S, and backstone at E end; pillar stone inside W end may be remains of entrance feature. Single outer-wall stones to N and S of gallery. Sidestones decrease in height from W to E; gallery covered by roofstone. Slight traces of surrounding mound. Multiple-stone circle (6441) 100m to N. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 6-7, Co. 7)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 170/1941).
Nearby in the register
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.