What is recorded here
Wedge tomb in Cloonyconry More stands in County Clare, Ireland. It is a megalithic tomb where ancient people placed what they lost before forgetting how to remember. The stones still lean into the field like a sentence broken mid-word.
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; dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). These tombs are characteristic of western Ireland and represent a regional evolution of megalithic burial practices.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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