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Lackamore : Wedge Tomb

CountyTipperary
Grid RefR 771 788
Longitude8° 20' 24.09" W
Latitude52° 51' 34.86" N
Nearest TownBallina (8.6 Km)
OS Sheet59
UTM zone29U
UTM x544434.36364668
UTM y5856865.7659177
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 10th November 2002

Well, it's a start I suppose, but does this bode badly for the rest of the day? Is the rest of my trip going to be visiting half a wedge tomb? As it turned out, luckily, no!

Some structure is left here and I was at first tempted to think this was a kist, but the doulbe walling points towards it being a very robbed wedge tomb, or perhaps a very early example and a cross over between kists and wedges.

There is just a 1.3m square box, about 60cm high, with a broken roof slab lying inside.

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