Stone chest from Manger

The stone chest of Manger ( Irish An Mainséar ; on the OS map as "Ass's Manger") is built into a roadside fence on the edge of an old quarry about 7.0 km southeast of Timahoe south of Stradbally in southeast County Laois in Ireland , under a blackberry bush.

It is an example of a megalithic stone box , with a capstone measuring 2.5 × 2.2 meters and an open chamber about 0.8 m deep in the northeast. In the east the tips of some stones can be seen, which could be the remains of the stone circle that surrounded the box until 1949.

An 1849 report by O'Byrne suggests that these are the remains of a larger essentially buried structure that was surrounded by a stone circle. The stone box that contained bones is said to have been exposed nearby.

Nearby is Monamanry , probably also a stone box.

See also

• Megalithic sites in Ireland
• List of stone boxes

literature

• Charles Mount: Early Bronze Age Burial in South-East Ireland in the light of Recent Research. In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature. Vol. 97, No. 3, 1997, ISSN  0035-8991 , pp. 101-193, JSTOR 25516193 .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 55 '57.8 "  N , 7 ° 6' 44.9"  W.