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<< Our Photo Pages >> Parknabinnia - Wedge Tomb in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Clare

Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Wednesday, 25 January 2017  Page Views: 12895

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Parknabinnia Alternative Name: Parknabinnia 3
Country: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Clare Type: Wedge Tomb
Nearest Town: Ennis  Nearest Village: Parknabinnia
Map Ref: R26489357
Discovery Map Number: D51
Latitude: 52.988137N  Longitude: 9.095484W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by jeffrep : Front of Parknabinnia Wedge Tomb (grid reference location identified as R 264936 by enkidu41). (Vote or comment on this photo)
One of the more accessible wedge tombs in the dramatic landscape of the Burren, Co. Clare, close to a by-road, remains of its cairn survive. The roofstone is over 3 metres long and now growing a crop of grass.

The sides are formed of single massive slabs. The E (rear) end is closed and the front is partly closed.
There are several tombs in the townland, at least one of which is very similar.

Note: Around 150 wedge tombs are known in County Clare with a marked concentration of over seventy on the upland limestone region known as the Burren in the north-west of the county.
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Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by enkidu41 : R 258933 A large wedge tomb now only partly roofed to a length of 3'. The gallery is 13' long by 6'6" wide. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by enkidu41 : R 260934 A wedge tomb now partly incorporated into a wall. A lot of the surrounding cairn survives and there are indications of a second gallery. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Parknabinnia Court Tomb
Parknabinnia Court Tomb submitted by damian120 : 5500-year-old Parknabinnia Court Tomb Once used to house the dead. Image copyright: damian1202, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Parknabinnia Capstone Factory
Parknabinnia Capstone Factory submitted by enkidu41 : R 259933 Close to Parknabinnia (1) wedge tomb are a number of remains (I found at least 5) which look like abandoned workings in which large rough slabs (which abound in the area) were turned into tomb capstones. In short, the area was a capstone factory. To enable them to be worked, the slabs are raised at one end on to a small boulder making them accessible all round. This is one such half fini... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Parknabinnia Capstone Factory
Parknabinnia Capstone Factory submitted by enkidu41

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by enkidu41 : R 259933 A wedge tomb which has partially collapsed. The stone in the foreground may have been the front of the chamber in which case the slipped capstone would originally have been considerably longer. Alternatively, the stone may have been part of an ante-chamber.

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by enkidu41 : R 264936 A wedge tomb with a 10' long capstone and remains of its cairn still surviving. The E end of the gallery is closed and the W end partially closed with a corner of the door slab removed to make a "spirit entrance" or "soul hole".

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by enkidu41 : R 258933 A large wedge tomb now only partly roofed to a length of 3'. The gallery is 13' long by 6'6" wide.

Parknabinnia Court Tomb
Parknabinnia Court Tomb submitted by damian120 : Overhead view of the double chamber Image copyright: damian1202, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Parknabinnia Court Tomb
Parknabinnia Court Tomb submitted by damian120 : 5500-years-old. History comes alive in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland Parknabinnia Court Tomb Image copyright: damian1202, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by Flickr : Parknabinnia Wedge Tomb Burren wedge tomb. Image copyright: Irishstones (Jim Dempsey), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by jeffrep : Side view of Parknabinnia Wedge Tomb (grid reference location identified as R 264936 by enkidu41).

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by jeffrep : Rear view of Parknabinnia Wedge Tomb (grid reference location identified as R 264936 by enkidu41).

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by jeffrep : Interior of Parknabinnia Wedge Tomb (grid reference location identified as R 264936 by enkidu41).

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by enkidu41 : R 264936 A wedge tomb with a 10' long capstone and remains of its cairn still surviving. The E end of the gallery is closed and the W end partially closed with a corner of the door slab removed to make a "spirit entrance" or "soul hole".

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by enkidu41

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by enkidu41 : R 260934 A wedge tomb now partly incorporated into a wall. A lot of the surrounding cairn survives and there are indications of a second gallery.

Parknabinnia
Parknabinnia submitted by enkidu41 : R 258933 A large wedge tomb now only partly roofed to a length of 3'. The gallery is 13' long by 6'6" wide.

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Parknabinnia Wedge Tomb Street View by Runemage on Friday, 04 May 2018
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Structured deposition of Neolithic hare bones in the Parknabinnia court tomb by Andy B on Saturday, 27 January 2018
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Note: We don't seem to have the Parknabinna court tomb listed at the moment so I'll put this here

Structured deposition of Neolithic hare bones in the Parknabinnia court tomb.

The faunal assemblage from the Parknabinnia court tomb was dominated by hares but hare ecology suggests that they would not willingly enter the tomb, and evidence for them being deposited by carnivores is slight. The tomb contains two chambers, and while some of the skeletal elements were dispersed evenly, others were not. This suggests deliberate human deposition of partly dismembered and whole hares in the tomb, with different practices being undertaken in the two chambers.

Two hare bones were dated, one from each chamber, in order to determine the date of these and to determine whether or not they are contemporary with each other and/or with the period of construction and use of the tomb. Both bones are firmly Neolithic in date, supporting the hypothesis that they were deliberately deposited in the tomb as part of ritual activity.

Work is currently progressing to determine the implications of these results for the interpretation of the use of the tomb.

Researchers:
Carleton Jones (NUI Galway)

Source:
https://www.nuigalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/geography-archaeology/disciplines/archaeology/research/ireland-atlantic-europe/structureddepositionofneolithicharebones/
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Re: Parknabinnia 3 by Andy B on Saturday, 27 January 2018
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Other sites near to Parknabinnia 3

Wedge Tomb at R 2639 9378
Wedge Tomb at R 2641 9378
Unclassified Tomb at R 2641 9348
Souterrain at R 2653 9334
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Parknabinnia 3 excavation update by Andy B on Saturday, 27 January 2018
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http://www.irishstones.org write:

June 17th, 2017 - We came here for the first time 14 years ago. It was quite time we payed another visit to this important wedge tomb.

Unfortunately, or luckily, some excavations were in progress at the time of our visit. The fact that this time it was a Saturday was of help because the works were stopped for the weekend, but we had the luck to find the supervisor who explained us what was going on at this site.

The grass and peat had been removed from the surface and the rocks of the Burren appeared. Only the strip before the tomb entrance was untouched.

The tomb faces southwest (215°). To southwest is where Donn, God of Death, would live according to the Irish mythology. For this reason the tombs were aligned to that direction, to make the journey of the dead easier.

The wedge tomb is 3.47 metres long, 1.20 metres tall and 2.43 metres wide at the entrance. It has two long side stones that extend past the length of the burial chamber to form sort of a portico in front of it. It has a backstone and a door stone, the roofstone is covered with a mound of dirt and grass. The whole thing is a perfect box. It is possible to get inside the chamber through a narrow passage between the door stone and the southeast side stone.

The supervisor told us that during the recent excavations two skeletons were found. The skeleton of child was found 8 days before our visit to the west of the tomb. The skeleton of an adult was found the day before our visit to the south of the tomb.
The tomb had a cairn who has disappeared in the centuries, but many other stones were taken away from the site to be used in the construction of the nearby road. Also the side stones were pried open to investigate the tomb or for taking something inside. The supervisor told us that the plan was to mount steel brackets and rods to old the side stones together. This intervention was planned for the Monday following our visit.
I think we were lucky to see the place as we saw it on that day.

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http://www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p=22&i=17
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Roughan Hill, Parknabinnia wedge tombs by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 January 2017
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More papers about the Roughan Hill, Parknabinnia wedge tombs here

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=20191#comments
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Monuments, Landscape and Identity in Chalcolithic Ireland Jones, McVeigh & Ó Maoldúin by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 January 2017
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Around 150 wedge tombs are known in County Clare with a marked concentration of over seventy wedge tombs on the upland limestone region known as the Burren in the north-west of the county. Of these, at least fifteen are concentrated in a restricted area known as Roughan Hill, making it the densest concentration of wedge tombs in the country.

Where evidence for contemporary settlement exists, wedge tombs have been found to be located quite close to habitations. This is certainly the case on Roughan Hill in County Clare where some wedge tombs are located as close as 100 meters from Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age habitation enclosures

The Chalcolithic wedge tombs of Ireland represent a dramatic re-emergence of megalithism over a millenium after most Neolithic megaliths were build and many centuries after most had gone out of use. This resurgence of building monuments associated with the dead may well have been associated with a period of social instability caused by the expansion of exchange networks and associated with the introduction of metallurgy. Regional, group, and individual identities all seem to have undergone change at this time, probably in a dynamic demographic context. Variations in the distribution and scale of wedge tombs in Co. Clare, on the west coast of Ireland, provide an interesting study that may reveal a pattern of clan affiliations, status competition, and enduring links to an important and ancient locale.

Carleton Jones, Thor McVeigh, and Ros Ó Maoldúin 2015: Monuments, Landscape and Identity in Chalcolithic Ireland, in Landscape and Identity: Archaeology and Human Geography
https://www.academia.edu/12153835/
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The Burren and the Aran Islands: Exploring the Archaeology by Carleton Jones by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 March 2016
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The Burren and the Aran Islands form a region renowned for its geology, flora and archaeology. Possibly the greatest interest is in the archaeology but the ancient monuments are often perceived as shrouded in mystery and beyond explanation. Recent studies have shed considerable light on the functions of these monuments and the people who built them. This book presents these archaeological interpretations in an attractive and engaging manner. After a brief introduction, the book is divided into two parts, the Burren and the Aran Islands. Significant sites are highlighted while ""panel"" features explain more tangential topics, e.g., how to build a wedge tomb.

The First Farmers on the Burren
Poulnabrone Portal Tomb
Poulawack Cairn
Doolin Stone Axe Production Site
Turlough Hill
The Parknabinnia Chambered Tomb on Roughan Hill
Territory and Society on the Burren in the Neolithic

From Neolithic to Bronze Age
Competition and Social Upheaval on Roughan Hill
Excavating a Farmstead on Roughan Hill
Dating the Ancient Field Walls on Roughan Hill
The Wedge Tombs of the Burren
Building a Wedge Tomb
and lots more
Preview at
http://www.amazon.com/The-Burren-Aran-Islands-Archaeology/dp/1903464498
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