Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Killakee, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killakee
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24740, -6.31673
- SMR number
- DU025-022----
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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
Situated in a state forestry plantation on a slight summit overlooking the Glen between Cruagh and Mountpelier. A megalithic tomb consisting of an irregular low mound (Wth 7m) which contains a number of protruding upright slabs (Ó hÉailidhe 1978, 101-3). The chamber extends E-W, with a W-facing façade and entrance (L 6m; Wth 6m). It is defined by sidestones and one endstone. Running parallel to the sides are remains of a double revetment wall of upright slabs. There are traces of kerbstones in the NW. Both the cairn material and roofing slabs have been removed.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 8 July 2018
References
Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1978 An unrecorded wedge-tomb at Killakee, County Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 108, 101-3.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.