Ballyrenan

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The Ballyrenan double system
Ballyrenan

The Portal Tombs of Ballyrenan ( Irish Baile Uí Raonáin , also called Cloghogle or Cloghastucan , Irish Cloch an Stuacáin ) are located behind a farm north of Ballyrenan Road, which branches off to the east, the road B84 ( Newtownstewart - Drumquin ) in County Tyrone in Northern 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.

At the west end of a largely demolished cairn is the unusual, west-east-oriented, parallel, but opposing, very rare double portal tomb with two approximately 2.2 m high portal stones and three cap stones (one is an intermediate above the portal) . The upper two have several bowls ( English cups ) and a common lateral support stone.

This rare example of a double portal tomb is 4.2 m long. When it was excavated in 1907, an arrowhead made of flint and stone beads was found . During the excavation in 1936, shards from the Neolithic Age , worked flint and other pearls were found.

West of the cairn is a stone with grinding marks . In the east of the Cairns there is another portal tomb. It lacks the keystone, but it has a high threshold stone between the portal stones.

Beltany's Court Tomb is nearby .

See also

literature

  • Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other monuments of early Ireland . Appletree, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .

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Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′ 44 "  N , 7 ° 25 ′ 15.2"  W.