Ballynasilloge
The portal Tomb of Ballynasilloge ( Irish Baile na Saileog ), also called Ballynasillogue or "The Banshee Stone", is located in Borris, about 300 m west of the Glashroge River in the west of County Carlow near the border with County Kilkenny in Ireland . Megalithic systems on the British Isles are called Portal Tombs , 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 relocated capstone measures approximately 3.7 × 2.0 m and is 0.35 m thick in the middle. It rests on the remains of two portal stones and on the door stone, while the end stone is missing. The west-east oriented megalithic complex shows hardly any remains of a hill that was once covered.
See also
literature
- G. Cooney: Space, Place and People: unfolding the role of Irish megalithic tombs. In: KW Beinhauer (Ed.): Studies on Megalithics , 1999, ISBN 3-930036-36-3 , pp. 331-345.
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs (= Shire Archeology. 63). Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 37 '0.2 " N , 6 ° 53" 57.7 " W.