Carnanmore
The Passage Tomb Carnanmore (also called East Torr ; Irish An Carnán Mór - German "the great cairn" ) is located in the townland Coolnagoppoge on the border with the townland East Torr near Cushendun near the northeast coast in County Antrim in Northern Ireland .
A round cairn on a hill contains a lot of quartz stones (typical of Passage Tombs), which here form a rectangular chamber that is accessed by a corridor in the southwest. Chamber and corridor are only symbolically separated and together are almost 12 meters long. The megalithic complex is covered with a cantilevered vaulted ceiling, which is rare for this angular shape .
Outstanding and unique in Northern Ireland alongside Knockmany and Sess Kilgreen is the decoration in the form of three horseshoes, serpentine lines and concentric circles on one of the upper granite stones .
Nearby are the Tombs of Torr Head and West Torr and the Stone of Sorrows.
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred EP Collins, Dudley M. Waterman: Knockmany chambered grave, Co. Tyrone. In: Ulster Journal of Archeology. Vol. 15, 1952, pp. 26-30, JSTOR 20566646 .
Web links
- Description and pictures on megalithic.co.uk
Coordinates: 55 ° 10 '52 " N , 6 ° 5' 20.8" W.