Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Ardrah (Bantry By.),Gortnacowly, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardrah (Bantry By.),Gortnacowly
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.73806, -9.32724
- SMR number
- CO106-062----
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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)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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
On the SW-facing slopes of the Maughanaclea Hills in an area of boggy upland. The tomb is located in a hollow between two natural rises to the W and E and is incorporated in the townland boundary separating Ardrah from Gortnacowley. Two overlapping slabs (H 1.2m), aligned ENE-WSW, lean slightly to the S and represent the S side of the gallery (L 2.8m) which, together with the backstone, appear to be the only stones in their original positions. The stones forming the N gallery side were displaced when a drain was dug along this side of the boundary c. 30 years ago (local info.). Two prostrate slabs lying in the gallery area W of the backstone probably represent the remains of the N side. A prostrate slab (2.1m x 1.5m; T 0.15m) lying c. 1m to the SE of the tomb is probaby the displaced roofstone. Outside the SW corner of the gallery, a slab leaning to the E may be a displaced façade stone; a second stone, with its W end stuck in the ground, leans against the former. A slab (2.1m x 0.5m; T 0.2m) lying in the bottom of the drain 4m W of the tomb may be a displaced part of the structure. A cairn (CO106-085---) is located 190m to the SW.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Four posterunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.