Tamlaght Dolmen
The Tamlaght Dolmen , also known as Tamlaght Stone, Coagh Dolmen or Portal Tomb by Cloghtogle ( Irish Cloch thógála - ( German "raised stone" )) is located north of Littlebridge Road, west of the Ballinderry River and about 700 m northwest of the town of Coagh im Townland Tamlaght ( Irish Tamhlacht ) in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland . Half of the townland is in County Londonderry . The dolmen is located in a hedge on the south side of a small street, is overgrown with bushes and ivy and is referred to on OS maps as a Chambered Grave or Cloghtogle. In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
The portal tomb consists of a solid round capstone that rests on four supporting stones, and other stones on the outside. The west-east oriented capstone is 1.6 m high, 2.8 m long and 2.3 m wide. The bearing stones are 1.15 m, 1.05 m, 0.95 m and 0.8 m high.
literature
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic Tombs (= Shire Archeology. 63). Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 .
- Colm J. Donnelly: Living Places. Archeology, Continuity and Change at Historic Monuments in Northern Ireland. The Institute of Irish Studies - The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast 1997, ISBN 0-85389-475-2 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 39 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 6 ° 37 ′ 41.4 ″ W.