Derreenataggart
The stone circle of Derreenataggart (also Derrintaggart, Irish Doirín an tSagairt ) is about 1.2 km northwest of Castletownbere in County Cork in Ireland .
The stone circle type Recumbent Stone Circle is a - (circles with horizontal stone RSC) megalithic stone circle, the kind that only in Aberdeenshire in Scotland and in the southwest of Ireland found where he was a stone circle of Cork and Kerry series is called. The circles date to the end of the Neolithic or the beginning of the Bronze Age . In contrast to the circles in Scotland, they also have a portal made of two large stones, which is located in the southwest opposite the stone lying on the floor and do not contain a central cairn . The only other well-preserved example in the region is the 17-stone circle of Drombeg , west of Skibbereen .
The circle consists of eight stones. One of the portal stones has broken off and three stones have been put back up. The "lying stone" is 1.2 m high and 2.1 m long.
literature
- Seán Ó Nualláin: Stone Circles in Ireland . Country House, Dublin 1995, ISBN 0-946172-45-5 , pp.?.
- Aubrey Burl: A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany . Yale University Press, London 1995, ISBN 0-300-06331-8 , pp.?.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 13.9 " N , 9 ° 55 ′ 44.2" W.