Wedge
Tombs: A long burial gallery, sometimes with an antechamber or small closed
end-chamber. They are generally broader and higher at the front, which
invariably faces in a westerly direction. They are roofed by slabs laid
directly on the side-walls which often have one or more rows of outer-
walling. Evidence from the small number of excavated examples suggests
that they were being built between 2,500 and 2,000 BC representing the
last phase of megalithic tomb building.
Creevagh Wedge-tomb
Photos
of wedge tombs Map
of the wedge tombs of Clare (based on the Sites and Monuments Record
created by the OPW overlaid on the 1842 Ordnance Survey index map).