Crannagh
The portal Tomb of Crannagh ( Irish An Chrannach ) is also marked on old maps as "Dermot and Grania's Bed". It is northwest of Lough Coole ( Irish Loch na Cúile ) on a large limestone plateau of the Burren between Ballyvaughan and Gort in County Galway in the Republic of Ireland . Portal tombs are used between 4000 and 2500 BC. Megalithic systems erected in the Neolithic BC in Ireland and Great Britain , in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between, form the front of a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
description
The north-east-south-west oriented megalithic complex lies in the 0.5 m high remains of a pile of stones that is about 20.0 m long and six meters wide. The oversized, slightly inclined capstone of the Portal Tomb measures approximately 3.2 m in length, 2.4 m in width and is 0.40 m thick. The capstone is about 2.3 m high at the front and 1.9 m high at the back and is supported by two portal stones. It bears some resemblance to the capstone from Poulnabrone Dolmen , in County Clare . The narrow chamber is 1.7 m long and 0.9 to 0.8 m wide. The large, thin end stone (0.2 m) 2.1 m wide and 1.5 m high rests on, but does not support the capstone. Picturesque but difficult to get to, Crannagh is one of the best preserved dolmens in Ireland.
Nearby
- 800 m south in Ballynastaig is a large Wedge Tomb , which is covered by a massive stone.
- 400 m to the west there is a dun and a flooded basement .
- The Wedge Tomb of Ballaghaglash is in the near Burren in County Clare .
See also
literature
- E. Evan: Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland: A Guide. BT Batsford Ltd., London 1966.
- J. Waddell: The Prehistoric Archeology of Ireland. Galway University Press, Galway 1998.
- 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 ° 6 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 8 ° 51 ′ 29.5 ″ W.