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Baur North : Wedge Tomb

CountyClare
Grid RefM 223 005
Longitude9° 9' 31.65" W
Latitude53° 2' 58.34" N
Nearest TownBallyvaghan (7.3 Km)
OS Sheet51
UTM zone29U
UTM x489355.56259472
UTM y5877793.177439
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Visit Notes

Saturday, 26th October 2002

This is one of those tombs that you find which has co-existed with man for probably thousands of years and come to relatively little harm. It is along side a track, still in its mound (but open at the front), built into a wall within 20m of a barn.

It is a small box-like wedge tomb whose gallery measures 1.5m in length and is 1.3m wide by 1.1m tall. You can't help but admire the staying power of monuments that manage to cope with the pressures of modern farming, nor can you fail to respect the farmers who have respected them over the many years.

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