Killinaparson
The megalithic complex of Killinaparson ( Irish Coillín an Phearsúin - German "the priest's small forest" ), locally also called Giant's Grave , is located near Lumcloon on a western slope of the Slieve Bloom Mountains , near the border with County Offaly in County Laois in Ireland . The structure was on the bank of a stream, near a cottage. Today it is in the middle of a cleared spruce forest.
Killinaparson is a megalithic structure, the type of which is no longer recognizable. An approximately 2.3 m long, 70 cm wide and 70 cm high, north-south oriented stone seems to be in its place. On the west side there are four 2.1 to 1.5 m long stones, and a fifth is partially buried. According to a local account, the facility was destroyed by the army in 1798. As early as the 1860s, only seven or eight boulders from a local conglomerate were left of the giant grave.
The remains of the few stone structures found in Laois only in Killinaparson, Knockbaun , Manger and Monamanry date from the early Bronze Age (2000 BC).
See also
literature
- William Copeland Borlase : The Dolmens of Ireland, their Distribution, Structural Characteristics, and Affinities in other Countries; together with the folk lore attaching to them; supplemented by Considerations on the Anthropology, Ethnology and Traditions of the Irish People. Volume 2. Chapman & Hall, London 1897, ( digitized version ).
- Charles Mount: Early Bronze Age Burial in South-East Ireland in the light of Recent Research. In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature. Vol. 97, No. 3, 1997, ISSN 0035-8991 , pp. 101-193, JSTOR 25516193 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 39.7 ″ N , 7 ° 37 ′ 12.6 ″ W.
