Portal Tomb by Drumany
The slightly overgrown Portal Tomb von Drumany ( Irish Droim Eanaigh ; also called Giants Grave ) is located on a low drumlin in a flat landscape, 150 m south of Lough Nacarriga (Loch na Carraige; German lake of the rock ), south of the road R208 between Ballinamore or Bellanamore ( Irish Béal an Átha Móir ; - German "mouth of the great ford of water" ) and Keshcarrigan in County Leitrim in Ireland . 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 well-preserved monument consists of a chamber about 2.15 m high, about 2.4 m long and 1.95 m wide, covered by a single broken capstone that still rests on the portal stones that flank a door stone. The slightly relocated capstone was about 1.8 m long, 2.2 m wide and 0.3 m thick.
The portal stones are about 0.7 m apart and about 2.0 m high. The northern one is about 1.2 m wide and 0.6 m thick, while the southern one is split and about 0.9 m wide and 0.65 m thick. The door stone is about 1.05 m high, 0.7 m wide and 0.3 m thick.
The side stone on the south side is about 1.7 m long, 1.2 m high and 0.4 m thick. The one on the north side, which is supported against the portal, is about 1.8 m long, 1.65 m high and 0.25 m thick. A small stone measuring 0.6 × 0.3 m × 0.1 m is stuck between the southern side stone and the portal.
The end stone is about 1.5 m high, 0.75 m wide and 0.2 m thick. After de Valera and Ó Nualláin, no remnants of the Cairns have survived.
The heavily disturbed Wedge Tomb of Drumany is about 350 m southwest.
See also
literature
- Michael J. Moore: The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim. (Dublin 2003)
- R. de Valera, S. Ó Nualláin: Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Vol. III. (Dublin 1972)
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Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′ 15.5 " N , 7 ° 53 ′ 21.2" W.