Cloghanmore
Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′ 21 ″ N , 8 ° 44 ′ 45.1 ″ W.
Cloghanmore ( Irish Clochán Mór , German "The Great Stone" ) is a Court Tomb (megalithic chamber grave - English chambered tomb ), similar Creevykeel , with the particularity of parallel twin galleries, each consisting of two chambers at the west end of the courtyard. It is located at Malin More in the Columbkille Valley in County Donegal in Ireland . Court Tombs are among the megalithic chamber tombs ( English chambered tombs ) of the British Isles . With around 400 specimens, they are found almost exclusively in Ulster in the north of Ireland or in Northern Ireland .
Cloghanmore is considered to be the best preserved full-court facility in Ireland. Its origin is estimated to be around 3200 to 2500 BC. Dated. One of the two galleries is still covered by a heavy capstone. Two small, unsegmented chambers are located at the eastern end of the courtyard, on either side of the entrance. They have entrance stones that are decorated with motifs reminiscent of the art of the Passage Tombs . Weathering has almost wiped out the designs.
The yard is oval and measures approximately 15 m in length. The entrance on the east side is flanked by enormous orthostats. Much of the long trapezoidal cairn is original, but its current shape was created when the monument was renovated in the last century. The facility is located in swampy terrain.
See also
literature
- Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other monuments of early Ireland . Appletree, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .
Web links
- (The pictures are bad, but the basic plan is good) (last accessed on December 10, 2012) ( Memento of October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )