The Three Friars
The approximately 4.7 m long row of stones The Three Friars (also The White Friars - German called the three monks or the white monks ) stands on a slope in the hamlet of Smithstown, about five kilometers northeast of Mullinavat in County Kilkenny in Ireland .
It consists of three stones arranged according to the height, which are oriented northeast-southwest, with the highest stone at 1.25 m in the southwest. The middle stone is about 1.2 meters high. The third stone was / is on the ground.
Nearby is the Glencloghlea Tomb portal .
See also
literature
- Kennet McNally: Standing Stones and Other Monuments of Early Ireland . Appletree Press, Belfast 1984. ISBN 0-86281-121-X
- Seán Ó Nualláin: Stone Rows in the South of Ireland In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archeology, Culture, History, Literature Vol. 88C (1988), pp. 179-256
- Aubrey Burl: From Carnac to Callanish. The Prehistoric Stone Rows and Avenues of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1993, ISBN 0-300-05575-7 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 51.7 " N , 7 ° 6 ′ 40" W.