Kilcloghans basement
The ( stone-built ) basement of Kilcloghans was discovered in a former ring fort in the townland of Kilcloghans ( Irish Cill Chlocháin ) near Tuam , in the north of County Galway in Ireland . The basement was rediscovered in the course of archaeological investigations of the planned bypassing of Tuam on the N17 (road).
The approximately 40,000 primarily Iron Age circular enclosures in Ireland alone are known as Duns , Raths or Ringforts, as well as by regional names (e.g. Cashel). The facilities, which were also early medieval, often have basements that are structurally mature. In the case of basements , a distinction is made between “earth-cut”, “rock-cut”, “mixed”, “stone built” and “wooden” (e.g. Coolcran, County Fermanagh ). Any buildings in the mostly small interior of the ring forts were usually of simple structure. The associated ring fort had been completely leveled over the years by plowing, but the basement was largely intact. It has only a few iron and copper artefacts, but contains many bones from sheep, pigs and horses and, more rarely, from red deer and also fish bones.
See also
literature
- Marc Clinton: The Souterrains of Ireland . Wordwell, 2001, ISBN 1-869857-49-6
- 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 .
- Liam McKinstry: The Excavation of a Ringfort and Souterrain at Kilcloghans, Co Galway In: Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society
Vol. 62 (2010), pp. 6-18
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Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '53.2 " N , 8 ° 51' 42" W.