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<< Our Photo Pages >> Kilmaclenine - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Cork

Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Sunday, 13 October 2002  Page Views: 4139

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kilmaclenine
Country: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 3.385 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Co. Cork Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen

Discovery Map Number: D73
Latitude: 52.201258N  Longitude: 8.707792W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Kilmaclenine
Kilmaclenine submitted by GaelicLaird : Looking at the tomb opening from the north west. Photo taken June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Known as 'Acuthogue', this box-like tomb (an enormous cist ?) was opened in the last century and found to contain 'a skeleton, a sword and some beads'. The roof stone is over 2.75 meters long, supported on 2 sidestones and a backstone almost 1.5 meters high.

Access: 4.8km (3 miles) SW of Buttevant and 1.2km (¾ miles) ENE of Kilmaclenine Crossroads, on the left hand side of a lane leading NNW from a byroad.
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Kilmaclenine submitted by GaelicLaird : The tomb is aligned East - West. This is looking at the opening of the tomb . As can be seen, the backstone doesn't support the capstone. Photo taken June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kilmaclenine
Kilmaclenine submitted by GaelicLaird : The chamber floor has been dug away and I was able to step down into the tomb and shelter within it from a shower of rain. There was sufficient room to stand fully upright without touching the ceiling. This is the view from within the tomb looking out of the entrance to the West. Photo taken June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kilmaclenine
Kilmaclenine submitted by GaelicLaird : The surrounding higher ground of the cairn can be seen here and the tomb sits within a hollow roughly in the centre. Photo taken June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kilmaclenine
Kilmaclenine submitted by GaelicLaird : Lots of cup marks on the internal face of the North sidestone. Photo taken June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kilmaclenine
Kilmaclenine submitted by GaelicLaird : A view inside the tomb to the backstone. Photo taken June 2021.

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Re: Kilmaclenine by GaelicLaird on Monday, 21 June 2021
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This site is comprised of two features; a cairn and a megalithic tomb, officially recorded as monuments CO024-056001 and CO024-056002 respectively.

The cairn is noted in the official archaeological record as follows:

CO024-056001-
Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as square area (c. 30m sq.) defined by dotted line and named 'Acuthoge'; hachured on 1905 OS 6-inch map as circular mound (diam. c. 30m) and named 'Acuthoge'; named 'carn' on 1937 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, in gently rolling countryside. Roughly circular grass-covered cairn (c. 34m N-S; c. 30m E-W; max. H c. 1.5m) with wedge tomb (CO024-05602-) in centre; heavily quarried. According to Brash (1843, 272) opened c. 1838 by Rev. Connery, parish priest of Buttevant; subsequently ransacked and large quantities of cairn material removed (resulting H c. 5-6m); composed of 'earth and small rubble' . Mound unusually large for wedge tomb and could be 'secondary feature' where cairn of wedge tomb has been enlarged and re-used for later burials (de Valera and O'Nualláin 1982, 1).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000).


The tomb (CO024-056002) description provided here is taken from the Survey Of The Megalithic Tombs of Ireland Vol IV (Cork, Kerry, Limerick & Tipperaray) by Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, 1982:

This monument is situated on gently rolling pasture land, about 4 km. south-west of Buttevant, mid-way between Mallow and Liscarroll. It stands on a low ridge overlooked, at the north-east, by the Ballyhoura Mountains. Westward from the site the ground falls to a small shallow valley beyond which are Kilmaclenine church and castle.

The monument was first described by Brash in 1853 and he recorded that it had been opened 15 years previously by a Rev. Mr. Connery, parish-priest of Buttevant. It consists of the remains of a large, apparently circular, mound of earth and stones, at present some 36 m. in maximum dimension. Brash states that local farmers were carting away the materials of the mound during his time and notes that the maximum height of the mound was then about eighteen feet (5-6 m.). The quarrying operations have long since ceased but are presently attested by a narrow trackway leading from the eastern edge of the mound to a large irregular hollow at the centre. Within this hollow area is exposed a small wedge-shaped chamber, covered by a single roofstone. The chamber sides are each of single slabs and the eastern end is closed by an inset backstone. The chamber floor has been dug away and the base of the northern sidestone is exposed.

The top edges of both sidestones slope downwards from west to east. The stone at the north is 3-00 m. long, 0.35 m. thick and 1.90 m. in maximum height. The opposite sidestone is 3.20 m. long, 0.25 m. thick and 1.85 m. in maximum height. The backstone leans inwards. It is 1.30 m. long, 0.45 m. thick and 1.65 m. high. The roofstone rests on both sidestones but not on the backstone. It measures 3.10 m. long and 2.15 m. wide and is 0.30 m. thick. The chamber, which is 2.20 m. long, decreases in height and width from west to east. It is 1.50 m. wide and was about 1.70 m. high at the west and is 1.40 m. wide and about 1.40 m. high at the east.

Rev. Thomas Olden, in an account published in 1881, records a local tradition of the mound having been opened some 60 years earlier and notes that "a skeleton with a sword by its side and some beads" was found in the chamber. These finds are said to have since disappeared. White (1913) quotes an account of the monument by a Dr. Caulfield which states that some 60 years earlier "a few fragments of bones, a bronze sword and a bead or amulet" were found in the chamber. He adds, "Mr. John Connell of Knockaunavaddreen told me he saw an iron sword in the tomb when he was a boy. Mr. Arthur B. Jones of Doneraile heard that some broken coins were fou

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