Barnes Lower Stone Row
The south-west-north-east oriented stone row of Barnes Lower lies on a hill between the lakes Lough Salt and Lough Greenan in the townland of Barnes Lower ( Irish An Bearnas Íochtarach ) north of Termon in County Donegal in Ireland . It is one of about 40 rows of stones in Ireland.
The largest stone is about 1.2 meters high, 0.7 m wide, 0.25 m thick and stands in the southwest. The middle pointed stone is 1.3 m away and is about 0.9 m high, 0.5 m wide and 0.25 m thick. The smallest stone is 1.25 m away. It is about 0.6 m high, 0.4 m wide and 0.15 m thick. The ground around the stone has been dug to make it more visible.
The largest stone has cup-and-ring markings and wide, shallow grooves on the southeast side. The middle one has bowls and a cross on the northwest side , a relic from the time of the Penal Laws , when the stone was used as a mass rock .
See also
literature
- Aubrey Burl: From Carnac to Callanish: The Prehistoric Stone Rows of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany 1993
- Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other Monuments of early Ireland . Appletree Press, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .
- 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 .
Web links
- Description and pictures on irishstones.org (Engl.)
- Description and picture on themodernantiquarian.com (Engl.)
- Youtube video from TheMegalithomania
- Description and picture on megalithicireland.com (Engl.)
- Description and picture on irishmegaliths.org.uk (Engl.)
Coordinates: 55 ° 5 ′ 3 " N , 7 ° 48 ′ 29.2" W.