Oghil Wedge Tomb
Oghil Wedge Tomb (also called Leaba Dhiarmada agus Gráinne) is one of the two wedge tombs that have survived on the Aran Islands . It is located south of the village of Corrúch in the townland of Oghil ( Irish Eochaill ) in the middle of the island of Inishmore in County Galway in Ireland . It is one of the 100 or so megalithic sites popularly known in Ireland as "Leaba Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne" ("Bed of Diarmuid and Gráinne ") . There are some destroyed clocháns ( beehive huts ) nearby . Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave", are aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic buildings from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
description
The facility is on the main ridge of Inishmore. The relatively well-preserved complex is a national monument. It consists of a wedge-shaped gallery that is not oriented west-east, as usual, but northeast-southwest. The length is 2.5 m. The width is reduced from 1.8 m at the entrance to 0.8 m at the end, which is formed by a single plate. A double wall of panels runs along the south side. The gallery is covered by three overlapping panels. It was originally covered by a hill whose traces are still visible.
See also
literature
- Ingeborg Clarus : Celtic Myths. Man and his otherworld. Walter Verlag 1991, ppb edition Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2000, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-491-69109-5 .
- Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. 1 - West Galway Dublin 1993
- 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 ° 7 '39 " N , 9 ° 43' 7.4" W.