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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Tooreen (Bear By., Kilcaskan ED), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Tooreen, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tooreen (Bear By., Kilcaskan ED)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.78333, -9.55915
SMR number
CO090-001----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On bog-covered SW-facing slope, below saddle of Esk and Barraboy Mountain. Small wedge-shaped chamber (L 1.5m; Wth 1.15m at W end. 0.7m at E) aligned NE-SW; sides each represented by single sidestone. Low thin slab inside base of S side may have been split from sidestone. Slab protruding from bog, resting on N sidestone, may be displaced roofstone. Slight traces of mound to N of chamber. Pre-bog walls and enclosure to SW tomb (Ó Nualláin 1989, 136)

No remains of this wedge-tomb could be found during a subsequent visit 27 August 2007

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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