Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Ballyvoge Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvoge Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.48089, -9.75513
- SMR number
- CO147-041----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On S-facing slope c.200m from shore at inner end of Barley Cover. Ruined gallery (L 4m; Wth c. 0.8m) aligned NE-SW, comprises one orthostat and two fallen sidestones to S, one orthostat to N, inset backstone to E. Orthostat at NW corner probably remains of outer-walling. Roof-stone, in two pieces, lies above gallery. No indications of surrounding mound. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 39, Co. 57; Roberts 1988, Ch. 4, no. 32)
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
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.