Portal Tomb by Lennan

Scheme of the Irish portal Tombarten

The portal Tomb von Lennan (also Lennon , Irish An Líonán ) is located southeast of the hamlet Tullycorbet and northwest of the hamlet Doohamlat near Ballybay in County Monaghan in Ireland . The small portal Tomb is on the slopes of a hill east of Corfin Lough. 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.

The chamber, which opens to the northwest, consists only of two side stones and the relocated capstone. The portal stones and the end stone were still in a field boundary in 1936 but have since been removed. Borlase wrote about the grave in: “In the town-land of Lennan and Parish of Tullycorbet” and in “The Dolmens of Ireland” Vol. 1 (1897). In his “Handbook of Irish Antiquities” (1903) William Frederick Wakeman (1822–1900) describes the grave as “The inscribed cromlech of Lennan or Tullycorbet, Co. Monaghan”.

See also

• Megalithic sites in Ireland
• List of Portal Tombs in Ireland

literature

• Peter Harbison : Pre-christian Ireland - From the first Settlers to the early Celts. London 1988, ISBN 0-500-27809-1

Web links

• Description Engl. and picture

Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ 10.6 ″  N , 6 ° 51 ′ 36.8 ″  W.