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Altar Wedge Tomb, County Cork Glantane East Wedge Tomb, County Cork, Ireland A wedge-shaped gallery grave or wedge tomb is a type of Irish chamber tomb . They are so named because the burial chamber narrows at one end (usually decreasing both in height and width from west to east), producing a wedge shape in elevation.
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The tomb to the west, a wedge-shaped gallery grave (wedge tomb) called the Giant's Grave, is trapezoidal in plan with the inner end of a SSE-facing gallery (4 × 2.6 m) and is divided by jambs inset in the gallery walls, with a rear chamber 2 m (7 ft) long. The outer chamber is composed of side-stones, an upright stone and four three kerb-stones.
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The tomb is located in the townland of Creevagh, in the parish of Carran, on private property. Roughan Hill, with a large number of other prehistoric structures (tombs, house remains and field walls) including Parknabinnia wedge tomb is about 2.3 km away. [1]: 43–6 Creevagh is one of eighty wedge tombs in Clare.
The gallery of this tomb is oriented SW–NE. It is divided into a portico and main chamber enclosed in a U-shaped outer wall surrounded by an oval cairn measuring 11.5 m (38 ft) long by 9.7 m (32 ft) wide. It has double walls and an entrance marked with two large orthostats. [11]
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The tombs are wedge-shaped in ground plan, with the widest part facing south west towards the setting sun like all tombs of this type. The setting sun is thus thought to have been of special significance to the builders. [2]: 43–6, 138–9