Menlough
The portal Tomb of Menlough ( Irish Mionlach ) is only about 10.0 m from the southeastern bank of Lough Corrib about 4.0 meters above the waterline and 4.6 km from Galway in County Galway in Ireland . Not to be confused with Menlough in east Galway. In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
The west-east oriented megalithic complex lacks the capstone and the end stone. It consists of the two portal stones and two side stones. The chamber is about 4.0 m long and 1.5 m wide and part of a field wall in the south. Next to the northern portal stone is a relocated stone that belongs to the complex.
Flanking stones
Flank stones are occasionally found on one or both sides in front of the portal stones, which indicates a simple courtyard or an ante , as shown by some court tombs . Since portal tombs, in contrast to other types, hardly show any traces of a cairn or hill, this part was probably often cleared away with the hill. Individual flank stones occur at Menlough and the Browneshill Dolmen in County Carlow in Ireland and at Tirnony Dolmen in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland , while at Ahaglaslin , in County Cork , low stones are placed in front of both portal stones and with further stones form a funnel-shaped entrance. A crescent-shaped settlement of low stones has been found at Ticloy , County Antrim , Northern Ireland.
Menlough's Tomb Portal lies in the remains of a misshapen cairn .
See also
literature
- Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra, Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway: Volume II: North Galway . Stationary Office, Dublin 1999, ISBN 0-7076-6179-X .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 36 " N , 9 ° 4 ′ 12" W.