Wedge Tomb from Ballyganner South
The Wedge Tomb of Ballyganner South in the townland of the same name ( Irish Baile Uí Dhanair Theas ) in the Burren in County Clare in Ireland is the largest of its kind in the Burren. It is located about 1.5 km northwest of Leamaneh Castle on a small hill in the middle of a field wall. Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave", are double-walled, aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic buildings from the late Neolithic (around 3000 BC) and the early Bronze Age in Ireland.
description
Ballyganner South is about 5.5 m long and tapers in width from about 3.0 m in the west to 2.4 m at the eastern end stone. It is oriented west-east and unusually high at 2.4 m at the western end. The once huge ceiling slab has broken into four parts that lie on, in and next to the chamber. The two side bearing stones are over 5 meters long and the upper part of the southern one protrudes forward like a bow. The chamber is closed by a large plate, which leaves an entrance on the north side, in which there is a threshold stone .
See also
literature
- 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 .
- George Cunningham: Burren Journey . Ballyvaughan; reprinted in 1993
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Wedge tombs Giants Grave in the Burren of Cavan and Labbacallee in County Cork are the largest in Ireland at over seven meters in length
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Coordinates: 52 ° 59 '42.8 " N , 9 ° 9' 40.9" W.