Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Caherbirrane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherbirrane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.95545, -9.01868
- SMR number
- CO059-092----
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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 tract of boggy ground on E side of Foherish River basin. Monument is badly damaged; early accounts indicate wedge-shaped gallery (L c. 2m; Wth c. 1m at W end narrowing to c. 0.8m to E) aligned E-W, having septal stone at W end preceded by short portico. Gallery was covered by single roofstone, now displaced. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 12-3, Co. 16)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.