Parknabinnia, Commons North & Leana

There are 10 wedge tombs tombs in Parknabinnia townland, 7 of which are recorded in The Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, along with 1 court tomb, 1 passage tomb, 5 cairns, 2 unclassified megalithic tombs/structures and 2 cists.

In the neighbouring townland of Leana there are 5 wedge tombs (2 of which are recorded in the Survey), 3 cairns and 1 unclassified megalithic structure. Further north in Commons North townland are 2 wedge tombs (both recorded in the Survey) and a cairn.

Alongside all of this have been found prehistoric farmsteads and enclosures, a true prehistoric landscape that when you’re exploring around there makes you wonder what more it has has to reveal.

This landscape deserves much more than a cursory visit, but as can be seen from what’s written above, it doesn’t give up its secrets easily. I’ve been here three times now, but like much of the Burren, I can’t say I really know the place.