Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Doire Mhic Coirnín, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Mhic Coirnín
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.82153, -9.24978
- SMR number
- CO080-019----
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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 wide expanse of open moorland on N-facing slope of valley of tributary of Sruhaunphadeen Stream. Comprises partly buried gallery (L 2m; Wth 1.1m at W end, 1m at E end) aligned ESE-WNW, represented by three sidestones to N, two to S and inset backstone at E end. Inclined stone at W end may be septal stone. Single outer-wall stone exposed at E end of N side. Gallery decreases in height from W to E; covered by roofstone, broken in two pieces. Incorporated in low mound (diam. 7m). (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 20, Co. 27)
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.