Tibradden Cairn
Near the summit of the 467 m high Tibradden Mountain is the Tibradden Cairn , a prehistoric burial site that connects local folklore with the Irish King Niall Glúndub mac Áedo († 919). The Tibradden Mountain ( Irish Sliabh Thigh Bródáin , "the mountain of the house of Bródán") is 7.7 km from Tallaght , in County Dublin in Ireland .
In its current form, the place consists of a round open funnel about 3.0 m in diameter in the center of a stone hill with a narrow passage to the center. For a long time it was believed that the memorial, which was excavated in 1849, was a passage grave. The author Robert Graves refers to this in his poetic-mythological work: "The White Goddess" (from 1948). During maintenance work in 1956, however, it became clear that the chamber and the corridor were not original and were probably not built until 1849 at the time of the original excavation.
Today the monument is considered a cairn with a stone box . In 1849 a clay pot and corpse burn were found in the cleared stone box, which is now in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
In the chamber lies a stone with a spiral pattern that was brought here from an unknown place.
See also
literature
- A. Farrington: The Prehistoric Burial Cairn on Tibradden Mountain, Co. Dublin . The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Seventh Series, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Dec. 31, 1933), pp. 252-254
- Glyn Daniel : Some Megalithic Follies . Antiquity Volume: 33, Number: 132 1959, pp. 282-284
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Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 19 ″ N , 6 ° 16 ′ 49.5 ″ W.