Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Carraig Na Muc, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carraig Na Muc
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.81217, -9.22923
- SMR number
- CO093-009----
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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
Marked only on 1842 OS 6-inch map as 'Giant's Grave'. In pasture, c. 150m to E of wedge tomb (6389). Removed; no visible surface trace. According to deValera and O Nualláin (1982, 49, no. 38), drawn in the OS Memoranda and described as 'two long flags placed parallel 6ft long 3ft broad 2ft high -no covering stone - appears a grave'. They suggest it may have been a small wedge tomb or a large cist (ibid.).
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
Nearby in the register
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- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.