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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ballymacus megalithic tomb
Country: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 10.104 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Cork Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Kinsale
Latitude: 51.683009N Longitude: 8.459136W
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**Ballymacus megalithic tomb** submitted by GaelicLaird : A wider view to the south west. The peninsula in the far distance is known as The Old Head of Kinsale. 11 miles south of that point in 1915 the largest ship of its time, the Lusitania, was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank in 18 minutes with the loss of 1,198 passengers and crew. Photo taken April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Co. Cork. An unclassified Megalithic tomb, officially recorded as monument number CO125-016----

This term is used for megalithic tombs that cannot be classified as a court tomb, portal tomb, passage tomb or wedge tomb. These may date from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age (c. 4000 - c. 500 BC).

Situated at edge of steep slope above cliff at Ballymacus Point. Monument consists of oblong cairn (L 8.5m; Wth 2.5m) with oblong depression, abutting old fence. Remains of gallery, at W end (L 3.6m), aligned E-W; represented by three orthostats and a prostrate slab to S, single orthostat to W. Cremen (1924, 73) records that, in 1872, a party of soldiers dug into the monument and removed a 'covering slab'. The remains appear to be last vestiges of a megalithic tomb.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994).

I award this site the coveted score of 5 on Ambience....it really is superb.

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