Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Leitry Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitry Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.69821, -9.25229
- SMR number
- CO106-061----
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
In moorland on S lower slopes of Nowen Hill. Low wall (L 2.7m) formed by double row of contiguous or overlapping stones; aligned NE-SW; decreasing in height from NE->SW. Stone set at right angles to N side of wall at NE end; second stone to S side of wall at SW end.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.