Duntryleague

The Passage Tomb from Duntryleague

The Passage Tomb of Duntryleague ( Irish Dún Trí Liag , German  "the Dún of the three pillars" ), also known as Dermot and Grania's Bed or Darby's Bed, is a national monument in a forest on Duntryleague Hill near Galbally in County Limerick in Ireland .

The Tomb Passage, deprived of its covering hill, has retained 22 bearing stones of the corridor and the approximately 3.0 m long and 1.5 m wide chamber, from which two of the three remaining cap stones come. About 3500 BC Rare example of a passage tomb from the 4th century BC with a widening in the east and a side chamber in the west immediately in front of the chamber and the remains of an exedra in the north has an unusual shape that is more common in Brittany than in southern Ireland.

After a legend, it is the grave of Ailill Aulom (Oilill Olum), a king of Munster from the 3rd century.

See also

• Megalithic sites in Ireland

literature

• Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1970 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 p. 148

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 25.2 "  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 30"  W.