Menhir of Portloman
The menhir of Portloman ( Irish Port Lomáin ) is a very slender stone pillar with an incised cross not far from the southwest bank of Lough Owel ( Loch Uail ), northwest of Mullingar in County Westmeath in Ireland .
The menhir measures around 1.8 m in height, 0.28 m in width and 0.25 m in depth and is made of granite . It is believed to be linked to St. Lommán of Portloman , who ran an abbey nearby in the 6th century, possibly on Church Island, one of the three small islands in the lake.
East of the lake is the only surviving De Profundis stone in Ireland.
literature
- James Tuite: Ancient sculptured stone at Portloman, Co. Westmeath. In: The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland , Series 6, Vol. II, 1912, pp. 69-70.
- 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 ° 34'7 " N , 7 ° 24'30" W.