What is recorded here

Cloongaheen West holds a wedge tomb, a place where ancient hands shaped stone before memory faded. The chamber still waits beneath the grass, preserving the shape of lives that never wrote their own names.

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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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