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Giants Grave — Baile Uí Uaithnín

Wedge tomb

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Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period, c. 3500–2500 BCE. This tomb type is significant as it reflects early communal burial practices and megalithic construction in southwest Ireland.

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What is recorded here

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982) Cuppage (1986, 20-6, no. 25 (a)) records that 'three of the stones of the gallery bear rock art designs.' These designs include a single cup-and-circle, twelve shallow cup-marks, two possible cup-marks and a penannular circle. These are shown in Cuppage (ibid., fig. 13b). The 'Gallaun' indicated on the 1st and 2nd ed. OS 6-inch maps to the SW of this wedge tomb is probably the one that is noted by Cuppage (ibid.) as a 'single outer-wall stone [which] stands at the W end of the S side [of the wedge tomb]'; this is also noted by O'Nuallain (1982, 55, fig. 20). See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982) Date of upload: 6 January 2012
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