Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Gortnacarriga (muskerry West By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnacarriga (muskerry West By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.82417, -9.17341
- SMR number
- CO081-047----
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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 undulating hilly terrain, in an area of felled coniferous forestry. This wedge tomb is situated 20m N of a large expanse of outcropping rock. The remains comprise a gallery (L 2.73m; Wth 1.05m at W, narrowing to 0.95m at E), aligned WSW-ENE, represented by two sidestones at N, three to the S, and a single backstone at E. Two longitudinally set jambstones stand inside the W end. The gallery is surrounded by outer-walling, two stones to the N, one to the E, and four along the S side. A partially exposed prostrate slab (1.35m x 0.8m) lying immediately outside the S outer-walling may be a displaced roofstone. A second slab (L 1m; Wth 0.47m) lies in the gallery area.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.