Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Knockane (muskerry West By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockane (muskerry West By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Graves (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.83006, -8.97361
- SMR number
- CO082-084001-
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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
S tomb of pair (CO082-084002-), 4m apart, on floor of short narrow defile near headwaters of Cummer River valley. Comprises gallery (L 1.4m; Wth 0.9m at W, 1m at E end) aligned NW-SE, represented by single sidestone to N and S, and backstone at E end; covered by roofstone. Traces of low mound to W and S. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 22, Co. 31)
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.