What is recorded here

Wedge tomb in Leamaneh North is a poorly preserved chamber tomb where triangular stone and sod walls still mark the edge of a chamber that has largely given up its shape. It sits on a gentle south-facing slope above poor grassland and limestone pavement, narrow at the west and wider at the east, with kerbs emerging through the grass like the ribs of something buried. The chamber is hard to identify now, but the surviving alignment suggests people once cut a small room into the hill and covered it with a wedge of stones.

On a gentle S-facing slope on poor grassland with limestone pavement and with limited views. A poorly preserved wedge tomb with an E-W aligned chamber (1.5m E-W; 1.3m N-S) within a triangular or wedge shaped cairn defined by kerbs visible at the N and S and extending out to W (Wth 3m). The cairn is narrow at the W (Wth c. 4m) and wider at the E (Wth 7.6m). The chamber is difficult to identify, two stones at the N may have been sidestones and stones in the S may also have been sidestones. The cairn material is sparse and internal walling may exist at N. Sod and stone walls are attached to the cairn at N and S, extending to the NE and S. An unclassified cairn (CL016-134----) is located c. 63m to the NNW. The following image has been uploaded: CL016-132----_01.jpg View of tomb from W. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 25 July 2022

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1500 BCE). Its orientation and form are typical of west Munster wedge tombs, reflecting regional funerary practices and landscape use during the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

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