Court Tomb by Letterfrack
The Court Tomb of Letterfrack at the foot of Diamond Hill, south of Letterfrack ( Irish Leitir FRAIC ) in Connemara National Park , in County Galway , near the border with County Mayo 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 .
The highly disturbed Court Tomb lacks the yard ( English court ). The approximately 5.5 m long north-south oriented gallery is better preserved. It is divided into two chambers by side stones. The hill, the stones of which were apparently built into a rock boundary, is badly disturbed.
Nearby are the row of stones by Baunoge and the menhir by Keelkyle. Mweelin's Court Tomb is east of Letterfrack .
See also
literature
- Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway . Vol. 1: West Galway (including Connemara and the Aran Islands) . Stationery Office, Dublin 1993, ISBN 0-7076-0322-6 .
- 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: 53 ° 32 '52.7 " N , 9 ° 57' 1.3" W.