Srahwee
The Wedge Tomb of Srahwee ( Irish An tSraith Bhuí , also Tobernahaltora , Irish Tobar na hAltóra - German called Altarquelle ) stands at the northeast corner of Lough Nahaltora (lake), about 9.5 km south of Louisburgh in County Mayo in Ireland on the roadside and has long been sought out as a holy spring in the past . Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave", are aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic buildings from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
It shows many of the classic dispositions of a wedge tomb . The wedge shape is weak. The double walling of the segmented gallery about five meters long, two meters wide and one meter high is fragmentary. The megalithic complex is partially covered by a 2.0 m² ceiling slab. The antechamber takes up about 30% of the length. A door stone closes the entrance to the megalithic complex opening to the west. There are indications of the former existence of an associated stone mound .
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literature
- Anthony Weir: Early Ireland: A Field Guide 1980
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Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 22 " N , 9 ° 49 ′ 29.8" W.