What is recorded here

Bog has swallowed most of the wedge tomb at Baile An Teampaill, leaving only a narrow four-metre gallery and a few pitched stones exposed within old field fences. The hidden depth suggests the land itself is forgetting a place people once shaped, while the remaining stones still mark the edge of that lost room.

(8) Wedge-tomb: The remains of this wedge-tomb are, for the most part, concealed by bog. The gallery, orientated WSW-ENE, is 1.2m wide at the W and some 4m in length. It is represented by 4 sidestones on the N and a single sidestone, pitched inwards, on the S. Two outer-wall stones are exposed to the N; a single stone to the SE may indicate the E end of the outer-walling. The edge of a roofstone, almost totally concealed, is visible at the NE end of the gallery. The tomb is situated within a network of old field fences, two of which run up to the site on the SW and SE. (Fig. 21) The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 24. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1500 BCE). Its orientation and construction reflect typical features of wedge tombs found in the Irish Midlands, significant for understanding funerary practices and social organisation of the period.

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