Ballyfroota
The dolmen of Ballyfroota ( Irish Baile an Phrútaigh ) is located on a small road on the edge of the northeast slope of the Slievereagh, west of the "Morningstar River", ( Irish An Chamhaoir ), northwest of Ballylanders ( Irish Baile an Londraigh ), in the southeast of County Limerick in Ireland .
The north-south oriented dolmen, which cannot be precisely identified typologically due to renovations, but mostly described as a wedge tomb , was used as a mass rock in the 19th century . It consists of the side stone on the west side, which supports a large, flat capstone, which is supported on the east side (center) by dry stone masonry, possibly composed of stones from the original structure. The second, also flat capstone in the east is a later addition and may have been the original side stone. It is also supported in the middle by the dry masonry block. On the east side, this capstone is laterally supported by a modern stone.
See also
literature
- Glyn Daniel : The megalith builders of Western Europe . Penguin, Harmondsworth et al. 1963 ( Pelican books A 633).
- Frances Lynch: Megalithic tombs and Long Barrows in Britain . Shire, Princes Risborough 1997, ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 ( Shire archeology 73).
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs . Shire, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire archeology 63).
- 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: 52 ° 23 '20 " N , 8 ° 22' 50" W.