Baurnadomeeny

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Ideal floor plan of a wedge tomb

The Wedge Tomb of Baurnadomeeny ( Irish Barr na dTuaimíní , also called Dermot and Grania's Bed ) is located northeast of Rear Cross, in a rural area, east of Limerick in County Tipperary in Ireland . It was excavated in 1959. Wedge Tombs ( German  "Keilgräber" , formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave") are double-walled, aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic buildings from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age in Ireland.

Divided by a plate on the entrance side, the antenna-like antechamber, which is unusually large for Wedge Tombs , is above which a plate supported by free-standing orthostats forms the roof. This subdivision of the chambers of systems of this type, observed only in the southern part of the island, led to the designation "southern wedge". In the antechamber was an open stone box containing cremated bones. There were four more corpse fire depots in the antechamber and 16 more pits and stone boxes (see quarters ) within the facility. It is assumed that the majority are secondary contributors. The excavation revealed that the antechamber was originally limited only by a low threshold stone and was otherwise open, but was later closed by plates. The facility is unique in Ireland.

Behind it is the chamber over four meters long and over three meters wide. The easternmost capstone of the gallery has a broad, deep furrow on the underside, and several curb stones of the cairn, which are about 15 m in diameter, bordered by a double row of stones, have bowls on their surface . A bearing stone has a "checkerboard-like" pattern of incised lines.

A 2.5 m high menhir (cloghfadda) stands on the road 1.5 km from the complex . Nearby lies Court Tomb of Shanballyedmond .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 27.7 "  N , 8 ° 13 ′ 34.7"  W.