Doonfeeny menhir
The Doonfeeny menhir ( Irish also called Cloch Fada , German "long stone" ) is located about 3.2 kilometers northwest of Ballycastle in an old cemetery near the old church of Doonfeeny ( Irish Dún Fhíne ) in the north of County Mayo in Ireland .
The highest Menhir ( English Standing Stone ) in County Mayo is about 4.5 meters tall, slender, sharp-edged column with a cross-section of 0.4 x 0.2 meters. The stone is a Christianized megalithic monument that was provided with two crosses before the 11th century. A single-lined Latin cross with forked ends and a horizontal base rests over a double -lined Maltese cross with a curved "bird's head" design. The column is also said to have weathered signs of an Oghamin script .
Nearby are the Céide Fields , the Menhir of Carrowtrasna and the Court Tomb of Ballyglass .
literature
- Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other monuments of early Ireland . Appletree, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 17 ′ 54 ″ N , 9 ° 24 ′ 12.9 ″ W.