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Wedge tomb in Leckaun

Wedge tomb

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Leckaun holds a wedge tomb where ancient hands tilted stone like a knife cutting through time. The chamber still points downward, waiting for bodies that never learned to leave. Clare gave up its dead to geometry, and geometry gave back a shape sharp enough to wound memory.
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, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). This type of tomb is significant as it represents a regional development in Irish megalithic architecture, often associated with changes in burial practices and social organisation.

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