Tiredigan
The Court Tomb of Tiredigan ( Irish Tír Roideagáin ) in the townland of the same name southwest of Three Mile House (or Threemilehouse, Irish Teach na dTrí Mhíle ), west of the R189 (road) in County Monaghan in Ireland , is possibly a "double court tomb". Court Tombs are among the megalithic chamber tombs ( English chambered tombs ) of the British Isles . With around 400 specimens, they are found almost exclusively in Ulster in the north of Ireland or in Northern Ireland .
description
The megalithic complex, referred to on the historical map as the “Cairnbaine Giants Grave”, is located in a trapezoidal northeast-southwest oriented stone mound about 36.0 m long and 19.0 m wide, mainly at the wider northeast end. In front of the associated gallery are the remains of a court measuring 6.5 × 5.5 m with two preserved stones from the exedra . Two side posts and a lintel provide access to the 4.0 m long and 1.7 m wide gallery, the buried end of which is formed by two side posts that indicate a continuation of the gallery. At the opposite end of the cairn is a 2.3 x 1.2 m open chamber with double posts to the west. However, the remains of a second courtyard have not been preserved.
See also
literature
- Anna L. Brindley: Archaeological inventory of County Monaghan. 1986, ISBN 0-7076-3819-4 .
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs. Shire, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire archeology 63).
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Facilities with galleries and courtyards at both ends of the Cairns are called "Double-Court" Tombs or Cairns. Occasionally the cairns of this type are rectangular, but the majority are trapezoidal.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 11 ′ 50.5 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 29.2" W.