Menhir from Ballymote

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The 3.7 m high menhir of Ballymote (officially Ballymoat , Irish Baile an Mhóta ) stands in the south of the townland Ballymoat about 1.7 km from the dolmen of Gaulstown on a ridge, about five kilometers northwest of Tramore and is the highest in the county Waterford in Ireland .

The oriented broadside northwest-southeast menhir ( Engl. Standing stone ) with the low-lying nose and tapered profile similar to the "Long Meg" in Cumbria and the statues of Easter Island probably only coincidental.

The Ballymote stone may have been quarried from a nearby rock area in the north. About 90 meters to the south-west is an overgrown tumulus about three meters high and 17 or 18 meters long, which may be related to the menhir.

literature

  • Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other monuments of early Ireland . Appletree, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ballymote is also a place in County Sligo

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Coordinates: 52 ° 11 '32 "  N , 7 ° 13' 20.1"  W.