What is recorded here

Wedge tomb in Coumaclavlig is a collapsed stone gallery on a west-facing slope above the Barony River valley, its thin side slabs fallen inward until their tops touch like the ribs of a small drowned room. It faces the living water and the road to Glengarriff Harbour, not a finished chamber or a named dead person. The forest around it is young compared with the stones, which means the tomb has watched the valley through more change than the trees have known.

Within a coniferous forest (planted 1991) on the W-facing slope of the upper reaches of the Barony River valley with views to the SE and S along the valley to Glengarriff Harbour. The remains consist of a collapsed gallery (L 2.6m; Wth c. 1.1m), aligned E-W. The N and S sides are each formed by single thin slabs which have fallen inwards and their tops rest against each other; the E end is closed by a backstone. Two transversely set, jamb-like stones front the W end of the gallery leaving an entrance gap of 0.55m. Immediately W of the S jamb are two uprights which, together with a corresponding almost prostrate slab to the N, indicate a portico arrangement at this end (L 1.1m). The gallery was covered by two roofstones. The first (1.3m x 0.95m; T 0.1-0.15m) lies immediately E of the S jamb and partially overlaps the second (2.65m x > 1.5m; T 0.12-0.15m) which covers the remainder of the gallery. Another wedge tomb (CO091-014003-) is located c. 900m to the SW and a third (CO091-010007-) is visible across the valley 1.4km to the WNW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its location within a river valley suggests it may have been part of a broader ritual or funerary landscape associated with early farming communities in the region.

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