Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
An Chlochbhuaile, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Chlochbhuaile
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.80345, -9.23566
- SMR number
- CO093-003----
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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 shoulder of N-facing slope, close to outcropping rock, at head of Sruhaunphadeen valley to NE of Douce Mountain. Comprises ruined E end of gallery (L 2.9m; Wth c. 1.3m) aligned E-W; represented by two sidestones to S, one fallen sidestone to N and inset backstone at E end. Outer-wallstones are present to N and S of gallery. Displaced roofstone lies above Eend. Traces of mound around N side of structure. Wedge-tomb (6397) stands c. 300m to E in Cornery townland. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 26, Co. 36)
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)
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.