Listoghil
The megalithic complex of Listoghil ( Irish Lios an tSeagail ) is located on the highest point of the Stone Age burial ground of Carrowmore and, with a diameter of about 34.0 m, is the largest monument among the preserved complexes of Carrowmore in County Sligo in Ireland . It has been called Carrowmore 51 since George Petrie's monument recording in 1837.
Listoghil is a passage tomb surrounded by a group of dolmens about half the size . In contrast to them, the monument is sunk in the ground under a partially preserved cairn . Listoghil was founded between 3640 and 3380 BC. Built in BC. The chamber has six bearing stones and an oversized limestone slab as a capstone. It is a rare example of megalithic art outside the Boyne Valley in the form of concentric circles or an abnormal tripod . When workers looking for stones for road construction discovered the chamber, the destruction of the cairn ceased. From the 18th century there are indications that another burial mound was in the vicinity, but the complex trading under the name Leacharail has not yet been found.
See also
literature
- Göran Burenhult: Tombs for Hunters British Archeology 82, 2005, pp. 22-27.
- Seán Ó Nualláin: Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland. Volume V: County Sligo 1989 ISBN 0-7076-0080-4
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Submerged systems largely bring with them those stabilizing elements that are preserved above-ground systems by stone packings and the like in a hill. You also do not need inward sloping bearing stones, but occasionally have them anyway for other reasons. Even mounds that would not be necessary for static reasons are occasionally found, as is the case here, above submerged systems
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Coordinates: 54 ° 15 ′ 3.1 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 9 ″ W.