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CORDERRY WEDGE TOMB
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CORDERRY WEDGE TOMB, COUNTY TIPPERARY
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PHOTO by Pip POWELL
JUL 2010
Located on a platform in gently sloping moorland on the W slope of Moanour
mountain which is at the W end of Slievenamuck mountain, this wedge tomb is
partially buried in the surrounding bog and consists of a long wedge shaped gallery
which measures  5.4m in length, 1.1m in width tapering to 0.65m at the back stone and
flanked at either side by the remains of an outer wall. A pair of orthostats stand behind
the E end of the gallery and two roof stones lie across the middle of the gallery with a
displaced roof stone resting above the orthostats at the W end of the N side. A number
of displaced stones lie in front of the entrance and the structure is incorporated in a
roughly circular mound 8-9m in diameter which rises little above the surface of the
bog. The tomb is quite heavily overgrown with gorse, brambles, ferns and scrub with a
Rowan tree on the S side of the E end growing on the tomb.
CO-ORDINATES
52 25' 12.987"N...8 15' 24.695"W