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'Craughaun Cemetery' : Wedge Tomb

TownlandBillinphunta
CountyClare
Grid RefR 479 616
Longitude8° 46' 14.98" W
Latitude52° 42' 11.12" N
Nearest TownCratloe (0.8 Km)
OS Sheet58
UTM zone29U
UTM x515485.17334075
UTM y5839267.1861823
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 5th January 2003

This is a beauty! I nearly didn't see it from the road, because it is beyond a railway line. The map shows it about 200m to one side of the cemetery, but amazingly it is actually IN the cemetery.

A square-ish roof slab, with lots of lovely solution pits in it, sits atop some great orthostats forming a chamber about 1.5m x 1.2m. It is on a raised dias, almost as if it has pride of place in the cemetery, overlooking the modern graves.

This is a really nice example of continuation of use for a location.

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