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Megalithic tomb in Kilcurrish

Megalithic tomb

What is recorded here

Kilcurrish holds one of County Clare’s many megalthic tombs, listed in Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin’s 1961 survey and still unclassified. That absence of a final label leaves the chamber open to imagination: perhaps it marked a boundary, stored a body, or gathered people beneath a sky now forgotten. The stones do not need a modern name to keep doing what they have always done, holding time still while the land turns around them.
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 (c. 3500–2500 BCE). This tomb type is significant as it reflects early communal burial practices and megalithic construction traditions in Ireland.

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