This one is remarkable for what no longer does. A wedge tomb, one of the most widespread megalithic tomb types in Ireland, dating broadly to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, once occupied a terrace on the western slope of Burren Hill in County Cork, looking out over the valley of the River Laney. In 2010, it was removed during land reclamation work, and with it went several thousand years of accumulated presence in that landscape.

Before it disappeared, the tomb had a recognisable wedge form: a roofless gallery running roughly northwest to southeast, about 3.5 metres long and 1.3 metres wide at its broader western end, tapering as it moved east. Wedge tombs take their name from precisely this shape, wider and higher at the entrance and gradually narrowing toward the closed back. This one had four sidestones along the northern wall, two along the southern, a backstone set into the eastern end, and a single prostrate slab lying at the western entrance. Two outer-wall stones survived to the north, one to the west. The orthostats, the upright stones forming the gallery walls, were deeply buried in bog, and there were no visible traces of the earthen mound that would originally have enclosed the structure. What the bog had preserved for millennia, a mechanical digger undid in a matter of hours.