Mullaghfarna village
Mullaghfarna village in the Doonaveeragh Mountains in County Sligo is the largest and oldest known prehistoric village in Ireland . It lies on a flat plateau on the east side of Cairns G and H from Carrowkeel . The mountain, on which the Cairns O and P are also located, turns into a flat limestone plateau on which the village of Mullaghfarna ( Irish Mullach na Fearna , "tip of the alder") lies.
Doonaveeragh is a glacier-scraped mountain separated by a deep rift from the main mountains of Carrowkeel. The valley is also known as “Devil's Gap” or “Bite”. The valley is the strip of land that gave the megalithic collection its name: Carrowkeel (dt. The thin quarter) is probably a relatively modern name. Many Irish districts ( English townlands ) have names were registered in the 16th century when the country for tax purposes, and terms such as quarter and one-third are common.
The plateau was identified in 1911 as a Stone Age village when RAS Macalister found about 40 counties (1870-1950), the foundations of the stone huts ( beehive huts ) ( English Beehive huts were). But without excavation there was no evidence that the circles date to the Neolithic , especially since the rugged surface appeared too rough to have been an ideal place to live, especially since there was no water. However, there are several springs just below the eastern edge of the Mullaghafarna Plateau and further down. It is said that Hugh O'Neill's army camped here many times during the nine years of the war (1594–1603) and the circles may be remnants of that time. The 2003 excavation put the village in the Neolithic period with the discovery of a flint knife . The excavation covered 180 circles of various sizes and several other enclosures on the plateau. The largest circles are on the east side of the plateau.
Nearby is the Kesh Corran Cairn .
literature
- Peter Harbison : Pre-Christian Ireland From the first Settlers to the early Celts . Thames and Hudson London 1988 ISBN 0-500-27809-1
- RAS Macalister, ECR Armstrong and R. Praeger 1911-12. Report on the exploration of Bronze-Age carns on Carrowkeel Mountain, Co. Sligo. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 29C, pp. 311-47.
- Seán Ó Nualláin: Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland. Volume V: County Sligo 1989 ISBN 0-7076-0080-4
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Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ′ 21.8 " N , 8 ° 22 ′ 10.5" W.
