Cohaw
The Double Court Tomb Cohaw (also known locally as Cohaw giants grave ) is a north-south-oriented, approximately 25 m long megalithic complex with five chambers in a rectangular stone mound , which, however, has been almost completely eroded. Cohaw is located south of the R192 four kilometers southeast of Cootehill in northern County Cavan , Ireland . Court tombs belong to the megalithic chamber tombs ( English chambered tombs ) of the British Isles . With around 400 copies, they are almost exclusively in Ulster in the north ofIreland and Northern Ireland respectively .
description
Built like two back-to-back court tombs with deep semicircular atria and two chambers at either end, a fifth chamber was built in between. There are marked post holes with small wooden stakes and are located in the northern atrium two holes (one stone pillar English Pillar stones ) have kept.
During excavations in 1949, a Neolithic pot and cremated bones were found.
See also
literature
- Seán P. Ó Ríardáin: Antiquities of the Irish countryside . Ruaidhrí de Valera (Ed.) 1979 p. 104
- 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 .
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the National Monuments in the Republic of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992, ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 , p. 36.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '14 " N , 7 ° 1' 40.9" W.