What is recorded here

Clooneen holds three wedge tombs within thirty metres, proving the slope suited burial even if it suited no one else. The main chamber measures 3.4m long and narrows from 0.9m to 0.8m, built from two parallel rows of upright limestone slabs with a cross slab 0.8m from one end. De Valera and Ó Nualláin called it a double cist in 1961, perhaps mistaking its divided look for a greater chamber. The field bank may have taken the rest.

On a SE-facing slope in pasture and hazel scrub, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Listed as ‘Cist’ in the RMP (1996), following de Valera and Ó Nualláin’s (1961, 43; see attached) interpretation of the monument as a divided/double cist, probably influenced by ‘true megalithic chambers’. A small wedge tomb (L 3.4m; Wth at WSW 0.9m, narrowing to 0.8m at ENE; max. H 0.8m) embedded in the centre of a grass-covered oval mound (c. 5m ENE-WSW; c. 3m NNW-SSE; H c. 1m). The tomb chamber comprises two parallel ENE-WSW rows of limestone slabs (0.9m apart at W, 0.8m apart at E), set upright on their long edges. There are two stones on the N side (W stone L 1.3m; H 0.3m; T 0.1m; E stone L 1.4m; H 0.6m; T 0.2m), with a 0.2m gap between them. There are four stones on the S side, three of which are set close together (W stone L 0.6m; H 0.1m; T 0.1m; central stone L 0.15m; Wth 0.1m; H 0.1m; E stone L 1.25m; H 0.2m; T 0.05m). A fourth coaligned slab lies c. 0.75m to the WSW. A transverse slab (L 0.7m; H 0.25m; T 0.1m) was set upright on its long edge across the chamber (i.e., oriented NNW-SSE), 0.8m from the ENE end. The possible continuation of the tomb in that direction may have been damaged by a NNW-SSE field bank. A wedge tomb (CL009-059094-) lies c. 13m to the SW and another wedge tomb (CL009-162----) lies c. 15m to N. The following items have been uploaded: CL009-059093-_01.pdf Details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 6 April 2022

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). Its presence within a multiperiod field system highlights its role in a long-standing landscape of ritual and agricultural activity in the region.

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