What is recorded here

Wedge tomb in Eantybeg South stands near the top of a south-facing slope in rough pasture, its coarse limestone chamber set inside a broken mound that still catches the wide view to the west. The east and west stones lean like tired shoulders, while displaced slabs at the south end suggest the tomb has been opened, damaged or remembered unevenly across centuries. It is not a grand monument, but a small sharp place where human hands shaped stone before the land forgot the shape of the living.

Near the top of a S-facing slope in rough pasture, with wide views to the S and W. Indicated on Robinson’s map (1977). Described by de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 24) as a S-facing wedge tomb (L c. 2.5m; Wth at rear 1.65m; Wth at front 1.75m) embedded in the centre of a broken and uneven mound (11m N–S; c. 10m E–W; H 0.6m). A modern N–S drystone field wall extended along the E side of the mound. The tomb was constructed from very coarse limestone slabs. The E and W sides each comprised a single upright limestone slab set on its long edge. The E sidestone (L 2.8m; max. H at N 1.2m; T c. 0.3m) leaned to the W, and its top edge was flaked and uneven. The W sidestone (L 2.85m; H at S 1.2m; H at N 1.05m; T 0.2–0.5m) had a thin and concave top edge. Continuing the line of the W sidestone to the N, there was another block (L 1.4m; H 0.4m; T 0.2m) which may not have been in situ. The S end of the chamber appeared to be partly disturbed, with a stone (L 1.7m; H 0.35m; T 0.2m) set upright on its long edge, extending from the E sidestone to perhaps beyond the W sidestone. Parallel to and S of this stone there were two upright slabs, ‘possibly displaced doorstones’ (ibid.). The more northerly of these (L 1.3m; H 0.8m; T 0.15m) leaned to the N. The second one (L 1.9m; H 0.9m; T c. 0.15m) leaned to the S and was ‘well set’ (ibid.). Within the chamber there were two slabs, both oriented E–W across the width of the tomb: the N stone (L 1.4m; Wth c. 0.6m) lay flat, while the S stone (L 1.05m; H c. 0.25m; T c. 0.3m) was firmly set upright on its long edge but was considered by de Valera and Ó Nualláin (ibid.) not to be in situ. An inspection of the tomb in 1998 found it unaltered in the interim (SMR file). Another wedge tomb (CL009-048001-) lies c. 350m to the S. 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) Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 24 January 2022

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). Its orientation and form are typical of western Irish wedge tombs, reflecting regional funerary practices and landscape use during the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

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