Menhir from Glenafelly
The menhir of Glenafelly (also Glenafilly , Irish Gleann na Feille ) stands near the Glenafelly Bridge next to the road across from a parking lot on the Slieve Bloom Trail (or Glenafelly or River Side Walk ) in the Slieve Bloom Mountains in County Offaly in Ireland .
The stone known locally as a "violin stone" is a menhir ( English standing stone ) or a boulder . It is unusually shaped for a menhir because it is wider than it is high. It measures around 1.7 m in width and 1.3 m in height. The stone is roughly rectangular and has no traces of packing stones. It has been suggested to be a boulder, but there is some written evidence that the stone was in some kind of enclosure. This indicates that it may have been placed there on purpose.
literature
- Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other Monuments of early Ireland . Appletree Press, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .
- 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 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '43.6 " N , 7 ° 41' 57.8" W.