Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Tooreen (bear By., Kilcaskan Ed), County Cork, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.