Aideen's Grave
Aideen's Grave ( Irish Uaigh Aoidín , also called "Finn mac Cools Quoit ") is located in Howth ( Binn Éadair ) in County Fingal in Ireland .
The south-east oriented portal Tomb on the Howth Head peninsula is west of the village, on the site of Howth Castle . The verstürzte megalithic whose quartzite capstone weighing approximately 75 tons, the second largest after the Brownshill Dolmen in County Carlow and in Carrick Glass in County Sligo is, is complete but collapsed. The two portal stones, each about 2.5 m high, and the door stone are in situ . Megalithic systems on the British Isles are called Portal Tombs , in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber, which is usually covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
According to legend, Aideen (old Irish Étaín ) was the wife of Oscar who fell in the battle of Gabhra. When Aideen found out about Oscar's death, she collapsed and died of her grief. Oisín , Oscar's father had buried her in Howth and built the portal tomb. In the sagas, such graves were usually reserved for great warriors and kings.
Aideen's Grave is also a book title by William Butler Yeats .
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Pre-christian Ireland - From the first Settlers to the early Celts. London 1988 ISBN 0-500-27809-1 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 45.2 " N , 6 ° 4 ′ 55.7" W.