
What is recorded here
In improved pasture 155m E of a stream that marks the townland boundary with Ballyarthur and the County boundary with Cork. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped mound (diam. c. 12m) defined by a fosse. Visible as a raised mound on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages where it is intersected at E by a field track running NW-SE.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 3 November 2021
A Neolithic passage tomb; significant as an early example of megalithic funerary architecture in the region.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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John MandevilleMemorial · 3.0 mi
Mitchelstown Town MapVisitor information · 3.0 mi
Paradise HillMountain / peak · 3.0 mi
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