What is recorded here

A tall upright stone still holds the east side of a rectangular chamber on the Burren, while smaller flags have collapsed across the floor and a later drystone wall abuts the ancient edge. People may have placed the dead inside that narrow stone box before turning the same heavy rocks into a shelter for sheep. The tomb has become a farm tool, marking how human needs keep layering upon memory.

On a generally level area of limestone pavement and rough pasture, on a W-facing slope with reasonable views SW-NW, although inhibited in the foreground by a drystone field boundary, c. 25m to W. Identified in 2017 by Dr Sharon Parr, Scientific Officer of the Burren Programme. It is a roughly rectangular area (3m N-S; 5m E-W) defined by an in situ upright orthostat (H 0.85m; L 2.55m; T 0.08m) which forms a definite E side. Immediately perpendicular to W, a single orthostat (min. H 0.32m; L 0.72m; T 0.06m) has collapsed inwards on the N-side, and may have formed part of a backstone. A flat, possible collapsed orthostat adjacent to W may have formed the western half of the N side. To the immediate S, a series of four parallel orthostats (largest H 0.7m; L 1.16m; T 0.06m) have fallen inwards to E, with the easternmost touching the inside of the large orthostat. It is likely that these four stacked flags formed the western side of the structure. A long, broad earthfast stone (H 0.05m; L 0.88m; T 0.27m) is located to the immediate W. A low drystone wall (max. H 0.4m; L 2.3m; T at top 0.5m; T at base 0.8-0.9m) forms a right-angle to E of the large orthostat, at the N end. It could have been part of a lamb fold/shelter that reused the megalithic structure to one side. The following images have been uploaded: CL006-157----_01.jpg From W. General view of monument. CL006-157----_02.jpg From S. General view of monument. CL006-157----_03.jpg From W. Close view of in-situ upright orthostat. CL006-157----_04.jpg From ENE. Possible shelter/lamb fold abutting to E side. CL006-157----_05.jpg From NW. General view of monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 5 February 2019

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). Its presence indicates a local tradition of megalithic funerary practice in the region.

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