Altar Wedge Tomb
The Altar Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and national monument located outside the village of Schull, in County Cork, Ireland.Photo: D.Camier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Mac McCarron, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Altar Church.
The Altar Church
Church
Photo: MrCorman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Altar Church, or The Church of The Poor, is a small Church of Ireland church in Toormore village in County Cork in Ireland. The church was built in 1847 as a famine relief effort to support the local poor. The Altar Church is situated 710 metres north of Altar Wedge Tomb.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Goleen and Schull.
Goleen
Village
Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Goleen is a small rural village in County Cork on the south-western tip of Ireland. Farming, tourism and construction work are among the main occupations of the local people. Goleen is situated 5 km southwest of Altar Wedge Tomb.
Schull
Photo: Kondephy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schull is a harbour town on the Mizen Head peninsula of County Cork, at the southwest tip of Ireland. The name means school, and was first documented in 1199 suggesting a religious seminary, but there's no trace of that.
Crookhaven
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crookhaven is a village in County Cork, Ireland, on the most southwestern tip of the island of Ireland. With an out-of-season population of about sixty, it swells in the summer season to about four hundred, when the occupants of the seasonal holiday homes arrive. Crookhaven is situated 8 km southwest of Altar Wedge Tomb.
Altar Wedge Tomb
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: wedge-shaped gallery grave in County Cork, Ireland
- Categories: wedge tomb, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.51374° or 51° 30′ 50″ northLongitude
-9.64402° or 9° 38′ 39″ westOpen location code
9C3GG974+F9OpenStreetMap ID
way 1141427128OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q2553968
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In Other Languages
“Altar Wedge Tomb” goes by many names.
- German: “Wedge tomb von Altar”
- German: “Wedge Tomb von Altar”
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Highlights include Altar and White Strand.
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