Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Kilberrihert (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilberrihert (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.95183, -8.91381
- SMR number
- CO060-115----
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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
At N foot of Cooper's Rock hill overlooking River Laney valley to W. Comprises gallery (L 1.85m,; Wth 1m at W, 0.9m at E end) aligned NE-SW, represented by three overlapping sidestones to N and S, and inset backstone at E end; surrounded by closely set outer walling. Prostrate slab outside W end; two displaced roofstones lie to N. Surrounded by low mound. Wedge-tomb (CO060-117----) stands 450m to ENE. (O Nualláin 1989, 135)
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
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.