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Wedge tomb in Killoe

Wedge tomb
Wedge tomb in Killoe
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Deeply buried in rough boggy ground, this fairly well-preserved wedge-tomb is located on a small platform on the N side of the valley between Bentee and Aghatubrid mountains. It commands a wide outlook to W, over the basin of the Oghermong river to Valencia Island and the sea beyond. The field in which it is located…

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Deeply buried in rough boggy ground, this fairly well-preserved wedge-tomb is located on a small platform on the N side of the valley between Bentee and Aghatubrid mountains. It commands a wide outlook to W, over the basin of the Oghermong river to Valencia Island and the sea beyond. The field in which it is located is known locally as 'Gortaleaca'. It consists of a chamber, roofed with two slabs, with the remains of aportico at its W end. Faint traces of a mound are visible on its S side. The chamber measures at least 2.9m in overall length and is aligned ENE-WSW. A markedly inclined septal-stone and an orthostat representing the N side of the portico are exposed at its W end. Two orthostats, decreasing in height towards E, form the S side of the chamber, while a collapsed side-stone is partly visible at N. Resting on the septal-stone is the high-pitched W roof-stone; it is slightly displaced and its E end is concealed by an overgrowth of peat which also overlies the adjacent E roof-stone. Cork University Press (1996), no. 81. 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) Date of upload: 28 July 2013

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE079-129

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