Ringcairn Dún Ruadh
The Ringcairn Dún Ruadh (also called "The Fairy Ring" or "The Red Fort") is located about 3.2 km northeast of Sheskinshule ( Irish Seisceann Siúil ) in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland .
The somewhat oval, edgeless cairn, around 30.0 m in diameter, is surrounded by a moat and a low wall with a stone circle inside.
The cairn encloses an open area that was defined by 17 orthostats connected by dry stone masonry . There is a paved entrance on the southwest side. In the hill there were / were 13 stone boxes . Some of them were well built, others only tentatively positioned between the stones of the hill.
The memorial is "anomalous" to Tyrone and has affinities with the Passage Tomb by Sess Kilgreen near Omagh and with Ringcairns in northeast Scotland.
There are remains of a gallery grave about 400 meters to the north in Carnanransy and the remains of a small court tomb with a semicircular courtyard immediately to the south .
"Dun an Ruigh Ruadh" is a Broch in Scotland .
literature
- Frances Lynch: Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Britain. Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1997 ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 7 ° 1 ′ 58 ″ W.