What is recorded here
Cromlech is a ruined wedge tomb in County Clare, Ireland, where ancient people laid out the dead beneath angled stone. The chamber still tilts into the earth like a mouth half-open, waiting to swallow what it has already taken.
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961)
Date of upload: 30 December 2011
Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic period. Its remains are significant as part of Ireland's megalithic heritage, reflecting early communal burial practices and stone construction techniques.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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