Stone row Finn Mc Cool's Fingers
The stone row Finn Mc Cool's Fingers , also called Derryinver ( Irish Doireinbhir ), lies on a ridge, west of the hamlet of Tully Cross, between Tully Mountain and Lake Tully Lough on the Rinvyle Peninsula in Connemara in County Galway in Ireland .
The approximately 16.0 m long, north-south oriented row of stones named after Fionn mac Cumhaill consists of six partly crooked menhirs . The three northern ones are rounded granite stones , descending in height from north to south (1.8, 1.2 and 0.7 m). The three southern stones, which also decrease in height from north to south (1.6, 0.7 and 0.5 m), are angular slates of slate . A seventh stone is about 0.6 m north.
South of Tully Lough is the “short stone chest ” of Derryinver.
Finn McCool's Fingers or Shantemon Stone Row is also called a row of five stones in County Cavan .
See also
literature
- Seán P. Ó. Ríordáin: Antiquities of the Irish countryside. 5th edition, revised. Methuen, London et al. 1979, ISBN 0-416-85630-6 .
- 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 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 51 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 54 ″ W.