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Wedge tomb in Knockbeha

Wedge tomb

What is recorded here

Knockbeha holds a wedge tomb, a place where ancient people laid their dead beneath angled stone. The shape still points inward like a knife cutting time. What is missing from modern records has not stopped the land from remembering.
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Wedge tomb; dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). These tombs are characteristic of the transition from passage tombs to portal dolmens in Ireland and represent an important phase in megalithic funerary architecture.

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