Ballywholan
In the townland of Ballywholan (spoken Ballyhollan, Irish Baile Uí Choileáin ) not far from the border with County Monaghan about 5.7 km southeast of Clogher in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland are the portal Tomb "Carnfadrig" and the Dual- Court Tomb about 2.3 km away "Carnagat".
Carnfadrig
Carnfadrig ( Irish Carn Phádraig - German "Patricks Cairn" ) is a portal tomb located on a hill north of Shanco Road with a preserved chamber part consisting of two 1.6 m high portal stones and a door stone at the east end of a 20th Meter long, approximately two meters high, trapezoidal stone mound , at the western end of which there are two chambers set at an angle. This system combines the forms of a portal with those of a court tomb. The excavation by J. Rapmund at the end of the 1890s revealed some human bones and flint tools as well as undecorated ceramic shards. An excavation of the mound revealed a complex internal structure of compartments formed from large stones. The name of the monument comes from the traditional use of the name St. Patricks in the valley that belongs to the diocese of Clogher .
Carnagat
Carnagat ( Irish Carn na gCat - German "Katzencairn" ) in the moor above the valley of the Furey River is only 800 meters from the border with the Republic of Ireland . It is an approximately 20 m long example of a dual court tomb with two approximately semicircular forecourts and a gallery of two approximately 2.5 m long chambers that are back to back and have a common end stone. The excavation in the late 1890s revealed some human bones and flint tools, as well as undecorated ceramic shards. One of the stones shows an L-shaped, mostly artificial notch. Such shoulder-shaped notches have also been found on stone settings (menhirs) and the portal tombs of Ballykeel , Legananny and Wateresk (all in Northern Ireland).
See also
literature
- Colm J. Donnelly: Living Places. Archeology, Continuity and Change at Historic Monuments in Northern Ireland. The Institute of Irish Studies - The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast 1997, ISBN 0-85389-475-2 .
- Winifred Wulff: Carnfadrig. In: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Series 6, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1923, pp. 190-195, JSTOR 25513298 .
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