Caheraphuca
That between 4000 and 2500 BC Built in the Neolithic BC Wedge Tomb of Caheraphuca ( Irish Cathair an Phúca ) is west of and near the old road (N18), about 800 meters west of Crusheen in the north of Inchicronan Lough; east of the Burren in County Clare in Ireland .
Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" , formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave") are double-walled, aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic buildings from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age . Wedge graves are a group of currently 569 sites in Ireland. They got their name after their appearance. They consist of a covered chamber that usually decreases in height and width from front to back. The grounds were originally covered by round, oval or D-shaped stone mounds .
Caheraphuca is an Irish National Monument. The name means something like " dwelling of the Púca ".
A long chamber made of five bearing stones supports two cap stones. These may originally have been a single stone that later broke.
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literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 p. 37
- 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: 52 ° 56 ′ 16.4 " N , 8 ° 54 ′ 23.4" W.