Wedge tomb in Cloneen

Situated on a ridge in undulating pasture. A large orthostat, 1.6m long, 0.25-0.4m thick and 0.7m high, appears to be the septal-stone or alternatively the western closing stone of a wedge tomb gallery. A smaller example at right angles to the southern end of this orthostat seems to be a sidestone. A tree has grown up around the latter stone partially covering it. In the 1980s another sidestone stood on the N side of the gallery and immediately outside it there was a further stone (Stout 1984, 16-17) possibly representing a doubling of the gallery wall. Two prostrate slabs at the site are locally claimed to have formed part of the structure. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1500 BCE). Its partially surviving orthostat suggests it is a regional example of a megalithic tomb type common in Ireland during the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.