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Wedge tomb in Milltown

Wedge tomb

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No stone remains visible in the pasture, yet the land still carries the shape of a buried chamber. The missing tomb may have fed the soil or vanished under ploughs and rain. A second wedge tomb waits fifty metres north, proving the area once belonged to death and memory rather than grass.
In improved, gently undulating pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. There is a mature isolated tree within the same field, further to the NW. A field boundary with hedgerow is c. 14m to the SW. Limited views of surrounding countryside due to tree-lined field boundaries. Not depicted or named on any OS historic mapping. There is no visible surface trace of a megalithic tomb at this location. According to the Discovery Programme (2006), a number of megalithic structures are described by Westropp (1902-04, 111-14), however not all of these could be matched with the respective SMR numbers. De Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 92, no. 3) describe this as the site of a probable wedge tomb. The site of another wedge tomb (CL035-006----) is c. 55m to the N. The following document has been uploaded: CL035-007----_01.pdf 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: Mary Tunney and Alison McQueen Date of upload: 25 October 2017
Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). Its form and location are typical of funerary monuments in the Atlantic seaboard region of Ireland and western Britain.

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