Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Inchinaneave, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchinaneave
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.85055, -9.07504
- SMR number
- CO082-010----
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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
Between two knolls on a tract of rough undulating land with outcropping rock, in River Lee valley some 140m N of loop of river. Monument is very ruined. Two orthostats at right-angles indicate gallery (L 1.65m), aligned perhaps E-W. Prostrate slab to N may be displaced sidestone. Cannot be classified with certainty; interpretation as a wedge tomb not inconsistent with present evidence. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 21, Co. 29)
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.