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What is recorded here
Giants Grave is a wedge tomb in County Clare, Ireland, where ancient stones still lean across the land like a forgotten breath. It belongs to the deep past, before written memory, when people shaped stone into chambers for the dead. The angle of its chamber suggests urgency, as if the living wanted the dead to keep leaning forward into the world.
See attached 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)
Caheraphuca wedge tomb is a national monument in state care, no. 466.
CL026-015----_01.pdf
CL026-015----_01.jpg View of wedge tomb from NW.
Date of upload: 30 December 2011
Wedge tomb; dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). It is part of a broader megalithic tradition in Ireland and reflects early communal burial practices.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
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