What is recorded here

Killanena holds a wedge tomb, a place where ancient people laid their dead beneath angled stone. The chamber still tilts into the earth like a mouth waiting to speak. What it swallowed is gone, but the shape remains, preserving the last act of a life that no longer has a name.

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Wedge tomb; likely dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. These tombs are characteristic of western Ireland and represent an important phase in the evolution of megalithic funerary architecture.

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