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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

An Chlochbhuaile, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, An Chlochbhuaile, 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
An Chlochbhuaile
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.79682, -9.24564
SMR number
CO093-076----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

In rough grazing, close to the foot of a W-facing slope in a clearing within a coniferous plantation at the head of Sruhaunphadeen valley on the NE side of Douce Mountain. The wedge-shaped gallery (L 1.95m; Wth 1.12m at W, narrowing to 0.65m at E), aligned WNW-ESE, is closed by a double backstone (H 0.45m) at E. Both the N and S sides are each formed by two uprights with the larger of the two set at the W end; the W end of the S side is broken and appears to represent a detached third stone. Three close-set outer-wall stones flank the N side of the gallery and a single outer-wall stone stands outside the E end of the S side. The E end of the gallery is covered by a roofstone (1.5m x 1m: T 0.15m), sloping to the E. Several portions of a broken slab lie prostrate among the ferns immediately to the W of the entrance and may represent the remnants of the roofstone from the W half of the gallery. Another wedge-tomb (CO093-001----) is c. 150m to the NNE.

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 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

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

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