Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Knocknagoun, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagoun
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.99790, -8.83775
- SMR number
- CO049-046----
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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 SE-facing slope of Knocknagoun Mountain overlooking basin of Dripsey River. Comprises gallery (L 2.6m; Wth 1m at W, 0.8m at E end) aligned NW-SE, represented by three sidestones to N, four to S and backstone outside gallery walls at E end; single jamb-like stone stands inside W end of S side. Remains of closely-set outer walling at E and S sides. Gallery covered by two overlapping roofstones. Traces of possible mound to W and S. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 8, Co. 9)
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)
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.