Carrickglass

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  • William Frederick Wakeman, around 1879

  • Carrickglass or Labby Rock

  • Carrickglass or Labby Rock 1890

Carrickglass (or the Labby Rock , Irish An Carraig Glas ), ( German  "the green rock" ) in County Sligo in Ireland is called by Kenneth McNally the clown among the Irish dolmens . Due to its proportions, it forms the most bizarre legacy of the Neolithic megalithic master builders of the 4th millennium BC. Chr.

description

A capstone made of coarse-grained limestone with a weight of about 70 tons lies over almost delicate supporting stones . The massive block overgrown with heather is about 4.5 m long, 2.7 m wide and 2.4 m thick. How this mass was lifted into position about 1.3 m above the ground is unknown. The capstone probably came from this place, as it is difficult to imagine that it could have been transported. The chamber of the Portal Tomb measures around 1.8 × 0.9 m. The site has not been excavated recently, but a corpse burn was discovered here in the 19th century. The entrance was closed with door panels. Portal Tombs are megalithic systems in the British Isles in which two upright stones of the same height with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber that is covered with a huge capstone.

This secluded monument is on the edge of the field behind a farm near the northern end of Lough Arrow , at Heapstown about 4 miles west-northwest of Ballyfarnham.

Legend

Nuada , the king of the Túatha Dé Danann , who was killed in the second battle of Moytirra, is said to be buried under the Labby Rock.

See also

literature

  • James Fergusson: Rude Stone Monuments. In all countries their age and uses. Murray, London 1872.
  • Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other monuments of early Ireland. Appletree, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .
  • Seán Ó Nualláin: Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland. Volume V: County Sligo 1989, ISBN 0-7076-0080-4 .

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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 26 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 45.8"  W.