Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Clooneen (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooneen (corcomroe By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99243, -9.14870
- SMR number
- CL016-020030-
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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
Within a field system (CL009-059001) at the edge of a plateau of limestone pavement overlooking lower ground to the NW and higher ground all around except to the W.
This poorly preserved and much-collapsed wedge tomb is defined by a chamber aligned N-S. Only one upright slab (L 2.8m; Wth 0.05-1m; H. 0.7m) survives on its E side. The capstone (L 2.3m E-W; Wth c. 2.1m, max. T 0.3m) has fallen to the N. Multiple small upright stones around it may represent an antechamber (Wth 1.1m). The remains of a grass-covered cairn (9.2m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.8m) surround the tomb. A cashel (CL016-020023-) is located c. 40m to the NW.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 20 April 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.