Portal Tomb by Ballygraney
The Portal Tomb of Ballygraney ( Irish Baile na Gréine ) is one of the few nearly intact Portal Tombs in Ireland . It is east of the River Barrow, southeast of Goresbridge in west County Carlow, and consists of the capstone, two portal stones, a door stone, six side stones, and drywall at the rear. Megalithic systems on the British Isles are called Portal Tombs , 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.
Similar to the Tomb portal from Seefin , it is located in the middle of a field boundary. The capstone, which weighs about 7.0 tons, measures about 3.5 m in length, 2.9 m in width and is 1.0 m thick. The very slim portal stones, with the 2.4 m long, 1.2 m wide and 0.4 m thick door panel in between, are 1.1 m high. The chamber is around 2.6 m long, 1.8 m wide and 1.1 m high at the front and can be entered through a small hole at the back. The three side stones on each side are still in place and angled at the end. The capstone rests on a small dry stone wall at the back . In the north and south of the megalithic complex there is stone material, which is probably the remains of the cairn .
See also
literature
- G. Cooney: Space, Place and People: unfolding the role of Irish megalithic tombs. In: Karl W. Beinhauer (Ed.): Studies on megalithics. 1999, pp. 331-345, ISBN 3-930036-36-3 .
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic Tombs. Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 37 '12 " N , 6 ° 57' 39" W.