What is recorded here

The largest chamber tomb in Clare still holds its shape inside Clooneen, though time has broken most of its walls. One long slab remains standing on the east side while the broad capstone lies fallen to the north, exposing the small chamber and possible antechamber beneath a grassy cairn. It stands at the edge of a limestone plateau, overlooking lower ground to the northwest and facing higher land on every other side. People may have chosen this sharp boundary between heights and depths because death itself moves between worlds.

Within a field system (CL009-059001) at the edge of a plateau of limestone pavement overlooking lower ground to the NW and higher ground all around except to the W. This poorly preserved and much-collapsed wedge tomb is defined by a chamber aligned N-S. Only one upright slab (L 2.8m; Wth 0.05-1m; H. 0.7m) survives on its E side. The capstone (L 2.3m E-W; Wth c. 2.1m, max. T 0.3m) has fallen to the N. Multiple small upright stones around it may represent an antechamber (Wth 1.1m). The remains of a grass-covered cairn (9.2m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.8m) surround the tomb. A cashel (CL016-020023-) is located c. 40m to the NW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 20 April 2022

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its location on a prominent limestone plateau suggests it may have had ritual or territorial significance in the landscape.

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