Drumanone
The Portal Tomb of Drumanone (also Tinnacarra - Irish Droim Inneona or Ballynanultagh Dolmen called) is located in the west of County Roscommon , northeast of a railway line, about three kilometers west of Boyle and north of the Boyle River in Ireland . In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber that is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
The bearing stones of the chamber are almost complete, but the approximately 4.5 m × 3.8 m capstone has collapsed due to the extensive removal of the stone mound . The two portal stones are over two meters high. The 1.2 m distance between them is closed by the door stone, which is just as high as the portal stones. There are two more stones on each side. The western one was displaced by the slipped capstone. A small stone at the lower end of the complex can be the broken remainder of the former keystone. The original dimensions of the polygonal chamber must have been around two meters. The chamber, excavated in 1954, contained significant amounts of burned bones and a small ax that came from the prolific flint mine at Tievebulliagh , County Antrim .
Drumanone (but also Knockmaa ) has been associated with Cul Cessrach, the grave of the mythological figure Cessair .
See also
literature
- 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 .
Web links
- Description Engl. + Picture (last accessed on December 10, 2012)
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Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '12.5 " N , 8 ° 21' 15.8" W.