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Ballaghaglash : Wedge Tomb

CountyClare
Grid RefR 373 995
Longitude8° 56' 5.75" W
Latitude53° 2' 33.08" N
Nearest TownCorrofin (13.9 Km)
OS Sheet52
UTM zone29U
UTM x504362.60913886
UTM y5877002.7795111
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 30th June 2002

I should be ashamed of myself! I nearly forgot this one. Situated on the incredible Burren moonscape terrain this tomb is somewhat ruined.

The walls have collapsed and the roof lies to one side. It is easy to see how the builders wedged the wall slabs into the cracks in the limestone pavement when constructing these.

One thing that is of note here is the one side. It seems to have a large, 60cm round hole in it and a matching round stone that would have plugged it.

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