Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Milleennagun, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milleennagun
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.67527, -9.04580
- SMR number
- CO121-038----
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 slight slope just S of crest low ridge; S and E sides incorporated in remains of field fence. Ruins of gallery (L c. 3.5m; Wth 1.2m) aligned NE-SW, represented by single stone to N, three stones to S, two of which form a doubling of the side. Stone at rear gallery protruding at an angle from fence, may be displaced backstone; prostrate slab, 3m NW of gallery, may be displaced sidestone or roofstone, No clear indications of surrounding mound. (O Nualláin 1989, 136)
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.