Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Ryefield East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ryefield East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.99521, -8.50495
- SMR number
- CO052-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on gently sloping arable land, in undulating country, c. 300m SE of Cloghnagashee river. Tomb is very ruined. Large roofstone (L 3.9m; Wth over 2.2m) rests above a number of fallen slabs. Single orthostat to S may be sidestone; second leaning orthostat to W may be facade stone. Structure incorporated in a low mound. Despite its ruinous condition the monument maybe interpreted as a wedge-tomb with a gallery orientated roughly W-E. (deValera and O Nualláin 1982, 9, No. 11).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crucifixion plaqueunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.