What is recorded here

You can still see the wedge tomb in Ballinphunta, a long stone chamber built by people who stopped believing death was a door and started building it a roof. The stones lean forward like they are still carrying something, and that shape is the whole point. A wedge tomb does not hide its angle or ask you to admire it. It shows the direction of the dead and leaves the living to follow or refuse.

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Date of upload: 30 December 2011

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). This type of tomb is significant as it represents a regional development in Irish funerary architecture, reflecting changes in burial practices and social organisation during the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

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