Wedge Tomb from Killough West
The Wedge Tomb of Killough West is located in the townland of the same name ( Irish Cill Achaidh Thiar , or Cill Achaidh ( German "field church" )) near Cahermore in the west of the Beara Peninsula in County Cork in Ireland . It is located on a hill in a meadow west of the R572 (Dursey Island Road) and is accessible via a stile . Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave", are aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic complexes from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
Killough West is a typical, somewhat overturned Wedge Tomb. The massive cover plate is massive (2.7 m long and 1.7 m wide). All traces of the external stabilization of the chamber are missing and the inside is filled with reading stones .
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 ° 36 '47 " N , 10 ° 3' 59.6" W.