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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Leenane, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Leenane, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Leenane
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.47104, -9.74450
SMR number
CO147-069----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1866 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a level shoulder on a SE-facing slope overlooking Crook Haven harbour. The remains can be interpreted as a collapsed chamber, orientated NE-SW, with a roofstone (2.2m x 2m; T 0.25m) resting above a number of slabs which may represent single N and S sidestones with two possible outer-wall stones protruding from under the S side; no evidence of a backstone or mound is visible. While the exact nature of this feature remains uncertain, interpretation as the remains of a megalithic tomb, possibly of the wedge-tomb class, seems likely. A wedge tomb (CO147-045----) with a similar orientation is located 55m to the SW and a standing stone (CO147-074----) is located 180m 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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