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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Ballyganner South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Ballyganner South, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyganner South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.00937, -9.14638
SMR number
CL009-059092-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a broad high point, in briars and rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This wedge tomb (int. dims. 4.4m E-W; 1.65m N-S at E; 1.5m N-S at W) is oriented E-W, and comprises a rectangular chamber of limestone slabs (av. T c. 0.1m): two sidestones at both N and S, an endstone at W, a possible ex situ endstone at E, and two collapsed capstone fragments within the chamber. The W sidestone at S (L 2.45m; H 1m) is the largest. The E sidestone at S (L 1.1; H 1.1m) is out of line with this larger slab, being set 0.3m to the S. The N sidestones (L 1.2-1.4m; H 0.3-0.8m; T 0.1-0.2) are in alignment, but there is a 1.8m gap between them, from which perhaps another slab was removed. The W endstone (L 1.8m; H 1.2m) is in position. The E endstone appears to have fallen outward: there is a flat-lying slab (L 2m; Wth 1m) 1m to the E of the chamber, oriented N-S. Of the two capstone fragments in the chamber, one (L 2m; Wth 0.9m) lies prone in the W while the other (L 1.4m) partly rests on the top edge of the large S sidestone.

The wedge tomb is integrated into a field wall running NW-SE, c. 3.5m to the SE of a junction with another wall running NE-SW. An enclosure (CL009-059116-) lies c. 28m to the NE.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-059092-_01.jpg View of wedge tomb from NW

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 5 April 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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