Kingsmountain pillar
The ornate column of Kingsmountain (also King's Mountain; Irish Sliabh an Rí ) stands on a narrow path in a field about 4.0 km away from the eastern cairns of Loughcrew ( Irish Loch Craobh ), east of Oldcastle in the far north of County Meath in Ireland .
The stone, decorated with four complete spirals , is 2.5 meters high and is said to be a capstone of a dismantled megalithic complex that was built around 5500 years ago and stood on the site until the 19th century. Until a few years ago, there was a barrow in its current location with a chamber made of small stone slabs filled with bones that have all disappeared. Although they were mentioned as early as 1828 by a Miss Beaufort, the Passage Tombs by Loughcrew were formally described by Conwell in 1864 and presented in 1872 at the Royal Irish Academy as "The Tombs of Ollamh Fodhla". A cairn is marked on a map from 1798 near this location. When Conwell visited Koenigsberg, it was too late to capture the nature of the monument. Five kilometers away is the Loughcrew complex, one of the largest passage tomb fields in Ireland with many decorated chambers.
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literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the National Monuments in the Republic of Ireland. Including a Selection of other Monuments not in State Care. Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1970.
- Frank Prendergast: The Loughcrew Hills and Passage Tomb Complex. In: Bettina Stefanini, Gayle McGlynn (Ed.): North Meath (= Irish Quaternary Association. Field Guide. No. 29). Irish Quaternary Association, Dublin 2011, ISBN 0-947920-44-7 , pp. 42-54.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 41.1 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 26.1 ″ W.