What is recorded here

Faunarooska holds a collapsed wedge tomb on a ridge above the Caher valley, its capstone and sidestones now indistinguishable from rough grazing. Tradition places the hoofmarks of the Glas Ghaibhneach cow, driven by the legendary smith Lon Mac Liofa, just southeast of the stones. The tomb has vanished from human memory, yet the land still keeps the shape of hands that built it.

Situated in rough grazing at the base of a N-facing slope, on the N-S ridge E of the Caher valley. A second wedge tomb (CL005-013002-) is located c. 35m ENE. A collapsed wedge tomb that was not located on inspection in 1998. It was recorded by the Megalithic Survey (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1961, 3) as ‘completely collapsed’ and as consisting of two sidestones with straight top edges, a capstone and three further recumbent slabs of unknown function. The capstone was described as an irregularly shaped slab (L 3.85m; T 0.1) that overlay the N sidestone (L2.9m; Wth at W 1.2m; Wth at E 1.25m; T 0.15-0.2m). The S sidestone (L 4.2m; Wth at W 1.3m; Wth at E 1.1m; T 0.15-0.2m) lay on one of the recumbent slabs (L 1.1m) and the remaining two recumbent slabs (L 1.85m & 2.4m) lay partially concealed in the ground W of the chamber. Robinson (1977) marks the ‘hoofmarks of the Glas Ghaibhneach cow’, of the legendary smith Lon Mac Liofa, just SE of here. 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: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of revised upload: 28 July 2022

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1500 BCE). Its location within a known cluster of wedge tombs in the region suggests it is part of a broader funerary and ritual landscape.

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