What is recorded here

Leamaneh North holds one of only five court tombs in County Clare, a rare survival from a time when people built chambers for the dead rather than simple mounds. The ruined gallery still points east through its oval cairn, inviting imagination about the hands that set its stones and the bodies it kept. The missing court and roof suggest a larger ceremony has vanished, leaving behind a narrow stone mouth that still faces the rising sun.

At the bottom of an E-W running ravine and overlooked by higher ground to the N and S; within a field system (CL009-059001-). This court tomb is ruined and the surviving remains consist of an unroofed two-chambered gallery, aligned E-W and opening to the E, surrounded by an oval cairn. The E chamber (L 2.3m) is defined by two sidestones on the N and S sides and it narrows from E (Wth 1.7m) to W (Wth c. 1.5m). Two pointed transversely set jambstones (N stone: L 0.5m; Wth 0.4m; H 0.8m; S stone: L 0.5m; Wth 0.4m; H 1m), set 0.5m apart, mark the division between the two chambers. The W chamber (L 2.05m) is defined by at least one sidestone on the N side and two on its S side. The N side may have continued further to the W (est. L 1m). This chamber also narrows from E (Wth 1.8m) to W (Wth 1.5m). A small circular cairn (diam. c. 2m) to the W of the chamber may be a collection of cairn material. The cairn (dims. 11m E-W; 7.6-9.5m N-S; H c. 1m) itself widens to towards the W. No trace of the court survives. An N-S running field wall crosses the E limits of the cairn. This court tomb is one of five recorded in the county (see also CL008-002001-, CL009-059063-, CL016-170---- and CL017-180007-). A cashel (CL016-020026-) lies c. 95m to the SSW. (Coffey 1988, 50) The following image has been uploaded: CL016-020029-_01.jpg View of tomb from W Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 20 April 2022

Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE); characterized by a central court and two burial chambers, reflecting early communal burial practices in Ireland. Its location within a structured field system suggests integration with contemporary land use and ritual landscapes.

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