Monamanry
Monamanry (Móin na Manraí, also called Druids' Altar ) stands on raised farmland in County Laois , Ireland . It is a round hill about 9.5 m in diameter and 0.75 m maximum height, which contains the remains of a supposed stone box .
The structure is surrounded by small curbs, some of which are hidden in the ground to the west. Two stones in the northeast, about 1.0 m within the curb circle, indicate an inner stone circle. In the middle is a pit about 3.5 m long and 2.0 m wide. A 1.2 m long and 0.8 m wide northwest-southeast oriented plate can be the capstone of a stone box. The Manger Stone Box (LA025-018) is about 2.0 km to the east. O'Hanlon & O'Leary give a brief description of the megalithic structure of Monamanry in their book “History of Queen's County” as does William Copeland Borlase (1848–1899) in “The Dolmens of Ireland, Vol. 2”.
See also
literature
- William Copeland Borlase : The Dolmens of Ireland, their Distribution, Structural Characteristics, and Affinities in other Countries; together with the folk lore attaching to them; supplemented by Considerations on the Anthropology, Ethnology and Traditions of the Irish People. Volume 2. Chapman & Hall, London 1897, ( digitized version ).
- Charles Mount: Early Bronze Age Burial in South-East Ireland in the light of Recent Research. In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature. Vol. 97, No. 3, 1997, ISSN 0035-8991 , pp. 101-193, JSTOR 25516193 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b William Copeland Borlase: The Dolmens of Ireland, their Distribution, Structural Characteristics, and Affinities in other Countries. Volume 2. 1897, p. 374 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 55 '47.2 " N , 7 ° 8' 43.7" W.