What is recorded here
Toormore in County Clare holds one of Ireland’s oldest visible chambers, built when people still measured life in stone and memory. Its unclassified form resists a simple label, yet the chamber remains clear enough to imagine: hands on rough stone, a dead person carried through, a family returning later to remember. Much has been lost, but the tomb still does its work, holding time steady and inviting wonder.
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
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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