Portal Tomb by Ballycasheen
The Ballycasheen Tomb portal , marked on older OS maps as "Dermot & Grania's Bed", is located between blackberries, gorse and blackthorn on a gentle southern slope next to a field border, south of the R476 road, about 5.3 km west of Killinaboy im Townland Ballycasheen ( Irish Baile Uí Chaisín ) near Corofin in County Clare in Ireland . In Ireland and Great Britain, 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 Tomb portal has two portal stones and a low door stone in the 2.3 m long chamber, 2.0 m wide at the entrance and 1.8 m wide at the rear. The shifted and split, 0.2 m thick capstone lies in the chamber and measured completely 2.5 m in length and 2.4 m in width. There is a side stone each on the north and south side, a facade stone is at the entrance on the north side.
Nearby are the Wedge Tombs by Cappaghkennedy , Rannah East and Parknabinnia .
See also
literature
- George Cunningham: Burren Journey . Ballyvaughan; reprinted in 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 .
Web links
- Detailed description. R. de Valera and S. Ó Nualláin in Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland (1961) . Retrieved June 1, 2019.
- Description and plan
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Coordinates: 52 ° 58 '38.9 " N , 9 ° 7' 16.3" W.