Passage Tomb from Ravensdale Park
The Passage Tomb of Ravensdale Park (also called Clermont Carn or Black Mountain ) is located on the 508 m high Black Mountain, in the north of the Cooley Peninsula in the townland Ravensdale Park ( Irish Gleann na bhFiach ) in County Louth in Ireland near the border with Northern Ireland , on the Táin Way or Táin Trail ( Irish Slí na Tána ).
The round cairn of the Passage Tombs is about 21.0 m in diameter and more than 4.0 m high. The remains of a megalithic structure about 3.5 m in length lie in the southwest quadrant. They seem to belong to a passage tomb of uncertain shape. It is open to the southwest and narrows from about 1.0 m wide to 0.5 m at the rear. Three falls are in situ . The rear part is covered by a cantilever vault over a length of about 0.7 m .
Near the middle of the cairn lie the remains of a 3.3 m long circular structure made of dry stone , which may have been built by Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron of Clermont (Lord Clermont), to whom the stone circle is ascribed.
Nearby are the Court Tomb , the Modern Stone Circle and the Ravensdale Stone Row .
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literature
- HG Tempest: The Stone Circle in Ravensdale Park. In: Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society Vol. 10, No. 2, 1942, pp. 128-132.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 45 ″ N , 6 ° 19 ′ 18 ″ W.