Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Ré Na Ndoirí, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ré Na Ndoirí
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.90195, -9.14742
- SMR number
- CO069-029----
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
In boggy narrow defile between two low ridges of outcropping rock. Comprises small gallery (L c. 1.25m; Wth c. 1m at W, 0.6m at E end) aligned ENE-WSW, represented by single sidestones to N and S, and inset backstone at E end, surrounded by closely-set outer walling; all thin slabs. Gallery decreases in height from W to E. (O Nualláin 1989, 136)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.