Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Corbehagh, Co. Clare

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Megalithic tomb – wedge tomb, Corbehagh, Co. Clare

In the townland of Corbehagh in County Clare, there is a wedge tomb, one of the most common yet least understood monument types in the Irish prehistoric landscape.

Wedge tombs, so called because their burial galleries taper in both height and width from front to back, belong broadly to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, a period roughly spanning 2500 to 2000 BC. Clare has an unusually dense concentration of them, and Corbehagh adds quietly to that count.

The principal scholarly record for this tomb comes from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, whose Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, Volume I, covering County Clare, was published in Dublin in 1961. That volume remains a foundational document for understanding the distribution and structural character of megalithic monuments across the county, cataloguing sites that might otherwise have passed without systematic attention. Beyond its inclusion in that survey, the specific details of this particular tomb, its dimensions, condition, and surviving structural elements, are not elaborated in the available source material.

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