Ballindoon
Ballindoon (also known locally as Giant's Grave ) is one between 4000 and 2500 BC. In the Neolithic BC megalithic complex was built in the townland and village of the same name ( Irish Baile an Dúin ) in a rocky location on a western slope east of Lough Arrow , ( Irish Loch Arbhach ) in the south of County Sligo in Ireland .
The structure not to be classified is located at the southeast end of a west-east oriented oval hill, about 13.0 × 10.0 m. There are two slabs at the north end of the hill. The eastern end of a gallery, with a length of 3.5 m and a width of 1.2 m, consists of one orthostat at the north and two at the south end.
The Ballindoon Monastery and the Court Tomb of Moytirra East are nearby .
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Pre-christian Ireland - From the first Settlers to the early Celts . London 1988, p. 217 ISBN 0-500-27809-1 p. 212
- Seán Ó Nualláin: Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland. Volume V: County Sligo 1989 ISBN 0-7076-0080-4
- 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 ° 5 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 8 ° 19 ′ 9.8 ″ W.