Portal Tomb by Ballyquin
The portal Tomb of Ballyquin (also named after the village of Mothel Dolmen) is located next to a small stream at the end of a valley south of Carrick-on-Suir in the townland of Ballyquin ( Irish Baile Uí Chuinn ) in the Civil parish Mothel ( Irish Maothail ) in County Waterford in Ireland . As portal Tombs be megalithic on the British Isles referred to in which two equally high upright stones therebetween with a door stone which form the front of a chamber which is covered with a massive part endstone.
The portal tomb standing on an incline cannot be compared to most other portal tombs. An approximately one meter thick, triangular capstone made of conglomerate measuring 4.15 mx 2.5 m rests on two 1.5 m high portal stones. The position of the portal stones, which is perpendicular to the always inclined capstone, is completely unusual, as the portal stones are usually set up perpendicular to the ground level. The end of the steeply inclined capstone is practically on the ground here. Thus the end stone and other stones seem to be missing. However, about 4 km away, at Oldgrange , there is a similar, but difficult to classify, probably not original megalithic structure , the capstone of which also rests on the ground.
Only 50 meters to the east is a menhir that was moved by the landowner a few years ago. The farmer believes it is the remainder of another portal tomb. It is the Ballyquin Ogham stone. Known locally as the "High Stone", the monolith is 2.5 meters high and has Ogham inscriptions on the edge. The inscriptions were read as CATABAR MOCO VIRICORB. It is believed that the stone was originally larger.
There is a sacred spring nearby ( St. Cuan Well , Tobar Chuáin ).
See also
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- Description Engl. and pictures
- Description Engl. and pictures
- Description Engl. and picture
- Oldgrange
- Description Engl. and picture of the 0gham
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 45 " N , 7 ° 23 ′ 49.1" W.