What is recorded here
Killokennedy holds a wedge tomb where ancient hands tilted stone into a narrow chamber, waiting for the dead or the forgotten. The shape still points inward like a knife edge, suggesting urgency rather than ceremony. People may have dropped offerings into its mouth or avoided it entirely, depending on whether they believed the chamber swallowed or protected. Either way, the tomb survived every kingdom that forgot it, keeping its angle sharp against the clutter of later centuries.
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 BCE). These tombs are characteristic of western Ireland and represent a regional evolution of megalithic burial traditions.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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