Shanballyedmond
The Court Tomb of Shanballyedmond ( Irish Seanbhaile Éamainn ) is located southwest of Rear Cross and east of Cappamore in the far west of County Tipperary in Ireland . Shanballyedmond is one of the southernmost court tombs in Ireland and, like most of these megalithic complexes, dates from the Middle Neolithic . Court Tombs are among the megalithic chamber tombs ( English chambered tombs ) of the British Isles . With around 400 copies, they are almost exclusively in Ulster in the north ofIreland and Northern Ireland respectively .
The Court Tomb with a length of about 12.0 m is one of the shortest of the up to 60 m long systems of this type, which is primarily found in the northern part of Ireland. With Balix Lower (in Northern Ireland) and Ballyganner North, Teergonean and Parknabinnia all in County Clare belong to the atypical Court Tombs, but their use simultaneously with the other Court Tombs in Ireland between 3700 and 3570 BC. Seems to have started.
The atypical plants are narrow, straight with tricherartigen, instead of round or oval, deep yards ( English courts ) and short shoulder-like Cairns. The complex is similar to a series of small portal tombs that are rarely found in preserved, but rectangular mounds.
Shanballyedmond is about 10 meters wide and has a courtyard about five meters wide and more than three meters deep. Some stones of the facade and the chamber are 1.5 m high. Two chambers, one behind the other, are accessible from the courtyard on the axis of the gallery. The lintels above the entrance and the chambers have been lost, as have most of the stones of the hill, while remains of the hill edging made of medium-sized blocks remain.
The finds in the megalithic complex, excavated and restored in 1958, consist of stone tools, arrowheads and ceramics , which belong to six burials, one of which was undisturbed.
Nearby is the Wedge Tomb by Baurnadomeeny .
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the National Monuments in the Republic of Ireland . 1970
- MJ O'Kelly: A horned cairn at Shanballyedmond, Co. Tipperary. Cork Hist. Soc. Journal, 63, pp. 37-73, 1958
- Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Theodore William Moody: A New History of Ireland I. Prehistoric and early Ireland . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, pp. 79-80 ISBN 978-0-198-21737-4
- Michael Herity: The Finds from Irish Court Tombs , Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archeology, Culture, History, Literature 87C (1987), pp. 103-281.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A court tomb, an example of the earliest such structure in Ireland is found at Shanballyedmond in the area of Rear Cross-Kilcommon. [1]
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Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 31 ″ N , 8 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W.