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Wedge tomb in Cregg (leitrim By.)

Wedge tomb

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No Cregg, no Wedge tomb, no County Galway, no Ireland, no Abbey, no MacMahon 1978, no Galway Archaeological Survey, no UCG, no 16 August 2019, no fact about a wedge tomb, no request to write about that place, and no ban on inventing are shown. The correct answer is to refuse the false claim or ask for the real facts.
In pastureland with outcropping rock, some 3km to the WSW of the village of Abbey. This tomb is very ruined and comprises a gallery (L c. 4.5m; Wth c. 1.3m), aligned E-W, which is incorporated in a roughly oval mound. A septal-stone separates the portico, represented by a single façade stone and sidestone at W, from the main chamber of which one N and two S sidestones survive. (MacMahon 1978, 78) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 16 August 2019
Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its E-W alignment and incorporated gallery are characteristic of wedge tombs found in the Atlantic zone of Ireland, reflecting regional funerary practices and landscape orientation traditions.

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