Ballynacloghy
The portal Tomb of Ballynacloghy is located about 30 m from the east coast of the bay "Lackanaloy Creek", north of the townland Ballynacloghy ( Irish Baile na Cloiche ) on a gentle southwest slope, about 8.0 km southwest of Oranmore in the south of County Galway in the Republic of Ireland . Portal tombs are used between 4000 and 2500 BC. Megalithic systems erected in the Neolithic BC in Ireland and Great Britain , in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between, form the front of a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
The partially collapsed west-east oriented portal Tomb consists of a large, rectangular capstone about 2.4 m long, 2.2 m wide and 0.6 m thick, which has slipped from the 1.6 m high portal stones, but is still leans against the sloping southern stone and rests on the high end stone. Two portal stones and a pointed end stone form a chamber 2.3 m long and 1.8 m wide. The structure is partially in a bush on an oval hill about 8.0 m in diameter.
See also
literature
- Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway: Volume II: North Galway . Stationary Office, Dublin 1999, ISBN 0-7076-6179-X .
- 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: 53 ° 13 ′ 31.8 " N , 8 ° 58 ′ 35.9" W.