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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Canrooska, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Canrooska, 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
Canrooska
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.78452, -9.54297
SMR number
CO090-021001-

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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

This is the most southerly of two wedge tombs situated on a gently sloping terrace in blanket bog at the head of the Canrooska River valley on the upper slopes of Barraboy Mountain; there are fine views from the monument to the S, overlooking Glengarriff Harbour and Bantry Bay. The remains comprise a gallery (L 3.2m; Wth 1.25m at W, narrowing to c. 0.75m at E), aligned NE-SW, largely enveloped in peat. The N side is formed by at least three stones and the tops of two others are exposed on the S side; the E end is closed by a backstone. The W end is sealed by a substantial septal-stone inset in the gallery sides and is fronted by a portico formed by single orthostats on each side with two further jamb-like stones set inside them. The E section of the chamber is flanked by three close-set outer-wall stones along the N and S sides. An inclined slab protruding from the peat immediately W of the portico may represent some other element of closure at this end or it could delimit the W end of the outer-walling. The gallery is covered by two partially displaced roofstones (W slab: 2.2m x 1.45m; T c. 0.12m; E slab: 1.8m x 2.3m; Wth c. 0.15m). The second wedge tomb (CO090-021002-) is 20m to the N.

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

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

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