Allée couverte from Loch Korrigan

The Allée couverte of Loch Korrigan (also called Dolmen von Loch Korrigan ) is located southwest of Melgven ( Breton Mêlwenn ), east of Concarneau in the Finistère department in Brittany in France . The eponymous Korrigans are fairies or dwarfish ghost figures from Celtic mythology in Brittany.

The dolmen, which is closed on three sides, is not an allée couverte . It has a round ceiling slab protruding on all sides and a lower stone in front of the entrance. In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

Nearby is the Cosquer dolmen (Melgven) .

See also

• Megalithic sites in Brittany

literature

• Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
• Pierre-Roland Giot: Prehistory of Brittany. Menhirs and dolmens . Édition d'Art Jos Le Doaré, Châteaulin 1996, ISBN 2-85543-103-4 .

Web links

• Description and picture (French)
• Description and picture (English)

Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '15.1 "  N , 3 ° 52' 2.8"  W.