What is recorded here

Wedge tombs in west Kerry belong to the late Neolithic and Bronze Age, when people buried their dead under long shallow chambers of upright stones and capped them with soil. In Baile Mór Thiar the chamber may still hold bone ash, potsherds or the rubbed smooth edges of hands that closed the door behind the dead. The land above has grown grass, eaten marker stones and forgotten the names of everyone the tomb swallowed.

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Wedge tomb; dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). These tombs are significant as they represent a regional variant of megalithic burial monuments in Ireland, often associated with communal burial practices and early social organisation.

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