Portal Tomb from Ballynoe
The portal Tomb of Ballynoe ( Irish An Baile Nua - also called Newtown) is east of the river Derreen (An Daoirin), which was once only about 30 m away, northeast of Ballon and about 4 km south of Tullow (Irish: An Tulach; German “Der Hügel " ) in County Carlow (Irish: Ceatharlach ; German " Vier Seen " ) in Ireland and is marked on the OS map as" Cromlech ". In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two upright stones of the same height with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber that is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
The Tomb portal is characterized by its inclined, extremely heavily encrusted capstone made of quartz with ribs and grooves that were created by weathering. It is oriented up the slope to the east on a small ledge. The capstone supported by the single portal stone is 3.5 m long, 3.2 m wide and 0.8 m thick. The other stones are missing, broken or fallen over. A small end stone is visible. There are traces of a 30 m long cairn .
The menhir of Knocknatubbrid from local granite , stands on the top of a small hill in the southeast. It is 1.6 m high and at its widest point 0.9 m wide.
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 ° 46 ′ 0.3 ″ N , 6 ° 43 ′ 57.5 ″ W.