Wedge Tomb from Ballynahown
The Wedge Tomb of Ballynahown (also known as Leitrim Mor) is located in the townland of the same name ( Irish Baile na hAbha ) on the south side of the Beara Peninsula and overlooking Bantry Bay east of Adrigole in County Cork in Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "wedge tombs" ), formerly "wedge-shaped gallery grave" called, are double-walled, seamless, mostly unarticulated megalithic of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
The comparatively narrow northeast-southwest-oriented Wedge Tomb is about 3.0 m long and has a wedge-shaped gallery 1.5 m wide at the west and 1.0 m at the east end. There are only two surviving side stones that support the capstone that lies above the east end. Two low, overlapping stones on the north side show that the gallery originally continued to the west. The covered part decreases in height from west to east. The Wedge Tomb lies in a low residual hill of 10.5 × 7.5 m.
A wedge tomb of the same name can be found in the townland of Ballynahown in County Clare .
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to National and Historic Monuments of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992, ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 19 " N , 9 ° 40 ′ 22.7" W.