Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Faunarooska (rathborney Ed), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faunarooska (rathborney Ed)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08871, -9.21734
- SMR number
- CL005-013002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in rough grazing at the base of a N-facing slope, on the N-S ridge E of the Caher valley. It was recorded by the Megalithic Survey as CL.4 (de Valera & Ó Nualláin 1961, 3-4). Inspection in 1998 revealed it to be unchanged since the Megalithic Survey’s account. A second wedge tomb (CL005-013001-) is located c. 35m WSW.
Orientated towards the SSW, the wedge tomb (est. min. L 3.5m; Wth at W 2.1m) comprises a double-walled chamber surrounded by a mound (8m E-W; 6.5m N-S). The chamber is largely concealed by collapsed slabs that are likely displaced capstones. The N side of the chamber is defined by four stones (L 0.2-1.45m; H 0.2-0.65m) set in a line (L 3.2m) c. 0.5m inside the N outer walling; the longest and highest of those slabs is on the western end. The S side of the chamber is defined by three slabs (L 0.5-1.1m; H 0.2-0.25m) in a line (L 2.6m). Two slabs (L 1m & 0.4m; H 0.85m & 0.4m) are set in a line across the W end of the chamber. Immediately inside, or E of these are two slabs sat on edge but not set. Five displaced slabs (L 1-2.4m; Wth 0.7-1.6m) in the interior are likely parts of one or more capstones. The N outer wall is defined by a line (L 4.1m) of seven stones (L 0.3-0.9m; H 0.1-0.3m). Only two stones (L 0.2 & 0.7m; H 0.4 & 0.6m) survive along the line of the S outer wall. The W outer wall comprises three stones (L 0.9-1.35m; H 0.2-0.9m) set in a line c. 1.5m from the W end of the chamber. The top edge of the shortest is obviously broken and two slabs (L 1.75m & 2m, Wth 0.65m & 1m) lie on top of it. Two loose slabs (L c. 1.25m) lie in the area between the W end of the chamber and the W outer wall.
Robinson (1977) marks the ‘hoofmarks of the Glas Ghaibhneach cow’, of the legendary smith Lon Mac Liofa, just SE of here.
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).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of revised upload: 28 July 2022
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.