Wedge tomb in Ballyrisode, County Cork

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What is recorded here

On shoulder (now forested) between two ridges of outcropping rock, on SE side Knockaphuca mountain. Badly damaged; comprised gallery (L c. 5m; Wth 0.8m) aligned ESE-WNW. Possible to distinguish outer walling and number of buttress stones to N and S of gallery. Three displaced roofstones partly cover E half. No clear indication or cairn or mound. (Roberts 1988, Ch. 4, No. 24; O Nualláin 1989, 135).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO147-014001

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