What is recorded here

Wedge tomb in Slievemore (sherkin Island) stands on a narrow inlet terrace beside Carrigdoona promontory fort, its chamber still marking a place where the living once handed death to stone. Winter storms of 2013-14 broke its exposure, and the rock pool that was once a small hole at the chamber's end now surrounds it, pulling the tomb inward like a breath held by the sea.

Situated on a terrace at the head of a narrow inlet, immediately E of Carrigdoona promontory fort (CO153-001001-) and close to Sherkin Point. It consists of a chamber (L 2.6m, Wth 1.1m) open to SW which is represented by one sidestone to N, two sidestones to S with an inset backstone to E. A low transverse stone set outside the W end of the S sidestone may represent some form of entrance feature, or part of a facade. Slight traces of a possible mound are visible to the N of the chamber. This monument was severely damaged during the winter storms of 2013-14 and has been enveloped by the rock pool which, when surveyed in 1988, was then just a small hole at the NW end of the chamber (see attached plan, CO153-001003-_01.pdf). (Power et al. 1992, no. 36) The attached image (CO153-001003-_01.jpg) was taken in April 2009 and is uploaded courtesy of Dolly O'Reilly. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 August 2014

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). It is part of the Slievemore complex, a significant group of megalithic tombs on Sherkin Island that provide insight into early funerary practices and settlement patterns in west Cork.

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