Aughlish
The stone circles and stone rows of Aughlish lie between Banagher and Rallagh Road in Feeny, about 6.0 km southwest of Dungiven in District Mid Ulster , in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland . Aughlish is typical of the Bronze Age stone circle complexes found in the Sperrin Mountains . Beaghmore, in County Tyrone, is the best known of these multiple complexes.
The southernmost circle is the best preserved of the five circles. It has about 12.5 meters in diameter and consists of over 40 low stones with a 1.5 meter high stone in the southern bow and a 1.5 meter high outlier ( English outlier ), just outside the northern arc. All circles seem to have outliers. The approximately 18.0 m long, tangential row of stones Aughlish North leads to a pair of circles. To the east of this are the stones of a semicircle that extends to the field boundary. North of the pair of circles is a small circle with an outlier south of the arc. At the western end of the field there is a single menhir ( English standing stone ).
Nearby is the Court Tomb of Ballybriest . The Wedge Tomb of Cloghnagalla is east of Dungiven.
See also
literature
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs. Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire Archeology 63).
- Colm J. Donnelly: Living Places. The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1997.
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 52 ′ 55.6 ″ N , 6 ° 58 ′ 10.1 ″ W.