Breeny More
Breeny More (also Breeney More or Brinney More) is a stone circle with four neighboring Boulder Burials , southeast of Kealkill, east of Ballylickey in the townland of Breeny More ( Irish Na Bruíne Móra , "the great fairy houses") near Bantry in County Cork in Ireland . The stone circle is a national monument.
The south-east-north-west oriented stone circle with a diameter of about 14 m has only two portal stones in situ , the axial stone and three other stones are on the ground, the other stones are missing. The portal stones are 1.7 m apart. The eastern one has a height of 2.42 m, a width of 1.23 meters and a thickness of about 50 centimeters. The western one is 1.73 meters high, 1.0 meters wide and 45 centimeters thick. The top profiles of the stones seem to complement each other as it was a long stone that was broken in two. One of the three fallen stones was erect about 2.0 meters high.
Boulder burials are large boulders that lie on three small supporting stones. They are generally found in connection with menhirs and stone circles in the south west of Ireland . Some researchers deny that they are burial sites as no human remains have been found. It is believed that boulder burials date from the Middle Bronze Age (1500 to 1000 BC).
The stone circle of Kealkill is 175 m to the northeast.
literature
- Aubrey Burl: A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany . Yale University Press 2017.
- 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: 51 ° 44'31.9 " N , 9 ° 22'29.9" W.