Skaghlea
The Skaghlea Cairn (also Skaghalea or Dog Little Cairn ) is a court tomb in the Townland Dog Little ( Irish An Choin Bheag ) in the Big Dog Forest in the " Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark" west of Derrygonnelly in the south of County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland , near the Border with the Republic of Ireland . Court Tombs are among the megalithic chamber tombs ( English chambered tombs ) of the British Isles . With around 400 specimens, they are found almost exclusively in Ulster in the north of Ireland or in Northern Ireland.
Skaghlea is an almost intact cairn made of granite stones , about 20.0 × 17.0 meters and 2.0 meters high. At the southeast end form eleven low, mossy orthostats , along with four stones of the Exedra and a very large stone that blocks access, the three-quarter obtained a court (Engl. Court ) in a U shape. The gallery is still covered by the stone material of the cairn.
Nearby are the Rossinure Beg and Rossinure More Court Tombs.
See also
literature
- Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland: Historic Monuments of Northern Ireland. An Introduction and Guide. 6th edition, 2nd imprint. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Belfast 1987 ISBN 0-337-08180-8 .
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic Tombs (= Shire Archeology. 63). Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 .
- 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 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 24 '17.7 " N , 7 ° 58' 12.9" W.