Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Crossoge, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crossoge
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Labbanacally (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.72415, -9.42538
- SMR number
- CO105-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level platform beside isolated rock outcrop, 1km E of mouth Owvane river. Gallery (L 2.1m; Wth 1m) aligned NE-SW; greater part formed by two long slabs; set inside the line of each to W is a shorter stone. Displaced, sill-like stone between two W stones; inset backstone at E end chamber. Two stones to W of chamber may be remains facade. Traces of mound to E delimited by three small stones. (O Nualláin 1989, 135)
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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.