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Ballynahown : Wedge Tomb

CountyClare
Grid RefM 108 030
GPSM 10779 02967 (7m)
Longitude9° 19' 52.5" W
Latitude53° 4' 11.66" N
Nearest TownLisdoonvarna (5.3 Km)
OS Sheet51
UTM zone29U
UTM x477805.70703995
UTM y5880098.3091629
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Visit Notes

Monday, 7th June 2004

This tomb stands in more open land in the same field as the nearby tomb ( Ballynahown (County Clare)). The remaining sidestone is 3.5m long and 1.2m tall. A large slab leans against this which could have been the roof.

Both this and the other tomb align north-south (presumably the direction that the major erosion line run in). There are traces of cairn material scattered around the base of the slab and the distribution of this implies that the remaining slab was the east wall.

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