Stone box from Fakeeragh

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The stone box of Fakeeragh (also called Clifden Cist) is located in the townland of Fakeeragh ( Irish Faiche Chaorach ) near the small lake Lough Animma, ( Irish Loch an Ime ), about west of Clifden in Connemara in County Galway in Ireland .

The west-east oriented, “long” stone box , is rectangular, 1.65 m long, 0.7 m wide and 0.25 m deep. Three side stones made of thin slabs are preserved, the fourth in the east and the capstone are missing. Traces of a low cairn measuring around 4.0 × 3.5 m are also preserved. The Cairn borders an outcrop immediately to the north .

See also

literature

  • Archaeological Inventory of County Galway. Volume 1: Paul Gosling: West Galway (including Connemara and the Aran Islands). Stationery Office, Dublin 1993, ISBN 0-7076-0322-6 .
  • 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 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 29 '36.4 "  N , 10 ° 2' 23.9"  W.