Gleninagh North

Nearest town:
Ballyvaghan (5km E)
OS reference:
M193104
OS sheet:
51
Latitude:
53° 8' 16.96 N
Longitude:
9° 12' 21.63 W
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Image of Gleninagh North (Wedge Tomb) by ryaner

With the tower house beyond and Gleninagh mountain further back.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 3, 2020
Image of Gleninagh North (Wedge Tomb) by ryaner

Not in the Clare inventory, it’s relatively easy to see why it was missed.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 3, 2020

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Gleninagh North

ryaner
ryaner Aug 3, 2020

Most people visit Gleninagh for the tower house and the storm beach. Down the track off the Ballyvaughan to Black Head road and there’s also a holy well, some fulachtaí fia, the remains of a bawn and a ‘house of indeterminate age’.

The very scant remains of a wedge tomb are what we’re looking for. Beyond the tower house, towards the storm beach, there are two parallel, reasonably thick slabs embedded in the ground, aligned roughly north-south. They’re not much and it’s surprising that they’re still here, given the needs of the construction of the tower house, but here they are. Maybe it was superstition that stopped its complete destruction.

The usual summer growth stopped me from investigating further – there may be more stones there. The two visible sidestones are heavily embedded in the turf. The storm beach is really rather magnificent. If you’re passing, maybe heading to Fanore or Moher, you could spend a while here and be well rewarded.

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