Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Ardaturrish More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardaturrish More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.72406, -9.49951
- SMR number
- CO105-057----
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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 a flat-topped knoll with fine views overlooking Glengarriff Harbour, c. 2m SW of a townland boundary fence. The remains consist of a chamber (L 1.15m; Wth 0.75m), aligned NNW-SSE, comprising two roughly parallel uprights which support the roofstone - a rounded boulder (1.6m N-S; 1.8m E-W; T 0.5m); no closing stones are visible. The cross-section of the roofstone is shaped like an inverted triangle with the rounded apex pointing downwards into the chamber, at which point it is 0.6m above the ground surface. The roofstone is similar in many respects to those used to cover boulder-burials but the support-stones are more typical of a megalithic tomb. The local name for the tomb is 'altar'. A megalithic structure (CO105-076----) is located 2m to the N.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.