Birrinagh
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That between 4000 and 2500 BC Portal Tomb of Birrinagh ( Irish Biorainneach ), built in the Neolithic BC, is located on flat land, about 90.0 m southeast of a small river that flows into Lough Gowna (Loch Gamhna, German "Kalbssee"). It is located approximately 1.5 km southeast of Moyne in northern County Longford 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 small portal Tomb is about 1.5 m long and consists of two portal stones about 1.8 m high, between which there is a 1.5 m high door stone. A 1.3 m high stone in the west leans against the northern portal stone. The stone is not an end stone, but the approx. 2.0 m long, 1.55 m wide and 0.4 to 0.2 m thick capstone that was relocated in the 1960s. The side stones were removed at the same time, according to local information.
See also
literature
- R. de Valera, S. Ó Nualláin: Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Vol. III. (Dublin 1972)
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Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 26.5 " N , 7 ° 36 ′ 33.5" W.