Townleyhall
Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '15.7 " N , 6 ° 27' 3.8" W.
The Passage Tomb of Townleyhall ( Irish Halla at Toinlígh ), also called Little Grange called, is part of the megalithic complex of Brú na Bóinne , the southernmost megalithic site in County Louth in Ireland , on the N51 (road) west of Drogheda just north of Dowth Plant in County Meath .
That around 3000 BC Passage Tomb, built in BC, was originally the site of a Neolithic settlement. Its construction is not comparable to that of its neighbors in the Boyne Valley ( Dowth , Knowth and Newgrange ), some of which have "cruciform" chambers. It consists of a single, undivided rectangular room that is accessed through a short corridor. Only a few orthostats survived. The grave looks like something in between passage and wedge tomb .
Townleyhall was excavated by George Eogan in the early 1960s as the first of the Boyne Valley facilities. He found cremation graves and Carrowkeel ware here, the first evidence that Ireland's Passage Tombs were Neolithic. The facility was prepared for viewing with dry retaining walls. Other facilities in the area were then excavated, the methods being considered crude by today's standards.
See also
literature
- George Eogan: A Neolithic habitation-site and megelithic tomb in Townleyhall. Co. Louth. In. RSAI 1963 pp. 37-81
