Cromwell Hill

Nearest town:
Hosspital (4km SW)
OS reference:
R730389
OS sheet:
65
Latitude:
52° 30' 3.37 N
Longitude:
8° 23' 51.47 W
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Image of Cromwell Hill (Wedge Tomb) by bawn79

Cairn on the summit of Cromwell Hill, its not marked on the OS map so im not sure of its date

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bawn79
bawn79 Sep 4, 2006
Image of Cromwell Hill (Wedge Tomb) by bawn79

This stone is over 2m long and is to one side of the tomb, it would orginally hav been part of it giving an idea of its size

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bawn79
bawn79 Sep 4, 2006
Image of Cromwell Hill (Wedge Tomb) by bawn79

Inside the passage, if you look in the bottom right corner you can see the collasped cap of the rear of the passage

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bawn79
bawn79 Sep 4, 2006

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Cromwell Hill

bawn79
bawn79 Sep 4, 2006

This is a lovely and quite big passage grave located near Herbertstown and in the vicinity of Lough Gur.
To get there turn off in herbertstown and follow the OS map as close as you can to it (its a very twisty road with lots of turns off etc so an OS map will be required).
At the closest point to the road there are a number of farm houses shown on the map on an acute bend. This is where I gained access, parking about 200m up from the houses.
Basically there is a ridge that you can see from the road, I crossed about two fields and a stream to get up to this ridge. Follow the ridge through some undergrowth, (there seems to be an old path here) up the hill. Coming from this side the tomb looks completely overgrown so I was delighted when I got around to the entrance of it to see it was intact and accessible.
The tomb itself must be 6-7m long. It is on an east-west alignment and there is a capstone in front of the passage in my photos. I climbed up to the peak of Cromwell Hill and there is a cairn there and loads of ditches/defenses. I guess they may have been built during Cromwells time as this hill would have been a great defensive location. From the peak there are great views to the Harps of Cliu and back over towards Lough Gur. The east west alignment to me would suggest it could be aligned to a sunrise over the back of Cromwell Hill.

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