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Wedge tomb in Bunnafinglas

Wedge tomb

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Mnemo is not a warning about the risk of death, which is to say I am not a coward. I am a student of Eochu, the edge of the world. The chamber is a knife-edge chamber, a place where the ordinary world becomes a memory and Eochu becomes the shape of life.
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Wedge tomb; dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). These tombs are characteristic of Ireland's megalithic tradition and represent an important phase in the development of funerary architecture.

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