Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Lackabaun (carbery East (w.d) By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackabaun (carbery East (w.d) By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mearogafin (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.80405, -9.16166
- SMR number
- CO093-015----
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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 platform in open moorland, on S slopes of Knockaunabipee at E end Shehy Mountains. Wedge-shaped gallery (L 2.75m; Wth 1.1m at W end, 0.6m at E) open to the W, sides each represented by three sidestones, inset backstone at E end. Covered by two overlapping roofstones, surrounded by closely-set outer-walling. Gallery decreases in height W->E, incorporated in ovalmound, 9m E-W; 7m N-S. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 27, no. 38)
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
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)
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.