Portal Tomb of Lissava
The portal Tomb von Lissava ( Irish Lios an Mheatha - German "the Fort of the Mede" ) is located on a slope near Lissava Upper, in the Scarragh Woods, northwest of the M 8 , a few kilometers west of Cahir in County Tipperary in Ireland . In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two upright stones of the same height form the front of the chamber and form the "door frame" in the shape of an H with the usually only half-height door stone .
Most of this type of facility is located in the eastern half of Ireland . To the west of the Donegal - Cork line , only about two dozen of the 185 known systems are represented. The presumably northwest-southeast oriented portal Tomb is one of only three in the county (the others are that of Ardcroney and that of Creggane near Nenagh ).
The portal Tomb of Lissava consists of a cover block of sandstone - conglomerate of 3.2 m long, 3.1 m m width and a thickness of 1.2. The capstone rests on the one hand on a triangular side stone 1.3 m high, 0.9 m wide and 0.3 m thick (south-west side) and on the other hand on the ground (north-east side). Another stone lies under the capstone and a rectangular block of quartz, 0.22 × 0.36 m, lies unrelated to the northeast of the capstone. The two portal stones are missing. The small rectangular chamber contains debris and earth. Another rubble hill is 1.5 m north.
See also
literature
- 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 .
- Seán Ó Nualláin: Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V: County Sligo 1989 ISBN 0-7076-0080-4
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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 29.7 " N , 7 ° 57 ′ 49.3" W.