Wedge Tomb von Ballyganner South

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Das Wedge Tomb von Ballyganner South im gleichnamigen Townland (irisch Baile Uí Dhanair Theas) im Burren im County Clare in Irland ist das größte seiner Art[1] im Burren. Es befindet sich etwa 1,5 km nordwestlich des Leamaneh Castle auf einem kleinen Hügel inmitten einer Feldmauer. Wedge Tombs (deutsch „Keilgräber“), früher auch „wedge-shaped gallery grave“ genannt, sind doppelwandige, ganglose, mehrheitlich ungegliederte Megalithbauten der späten Jungsteinzeit (etwa 3000 v. Chr.) und der frühen Bronzezeit in Irland.

Beschreibung

Ballyganner South hat etwa 5,5 m Länge und verjüngt sich in der Breite von etwa 3,0 m im Westen auf 2,4 m am östlichen Endstein. Es ist West-Ost orientiert und mit 2,4 m am westlichen Ende ungewöhnlich hoch. Die einst riesige Deckenplatte ist in vier Teile zerbrochen, die auf, in und neben der Kammer liegen. Die beiden seitlichen Tragsteine sind über 5 Meter lang und der obere Teil des südlichen ragt wie ein Bug nach vorne. Die Kammer wird von einer großen Platte verschlossen, die an der Nordseite einen Zugang frei lässt, in dem sich ein Schwellenstein befindet.

Plan des nahen Ballyganner North

Siehe auch

Literatur

  • George Cunningham: Burren Journey. Ballyvaughan; reprinted 1993

Einzelnachweise

  1. ↑ Die Wedge Tombs Giants Grave im Burren von Cavan und Labbacallee im County Cork sind mit über sieben Metern Länge die größten in Irland

Koordinaten: 52° 59′ 42,8″ N, 9° 9′ 40,9″ W

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Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
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ate turned upedgeways, and in 1752 Dr. Pococke writes of Achill, Co. Mayo, that 1 See Journal, vol. xxvii, p. 119; vol. xxx, p. 402 ; vol. xxxi, pp. 288-290.R. 8. A. I. Handbook, v, p. 56. Proc. R. I. Acad., vol. iv, ser. iii, p. 542; vol.xxvi (c), p. 461. * Journal, vol. ix (1866-7), consec, p. 193. PREHISTORIC REMAINS IN BURREN 259 the people have a custom of raising heaps of stones, here calledlaktch (leachta), in other parts kerns (earns) to the memory ofthe dead. i The custom has not yet died out in Aran and NoithConnacht. The late huts of beehive shape, with corbelled roofs (found inAran and some in Co. Kerry, on the Blasket Sound, so late that Isaw one in the course of building near Dunquin in 1904), are also aserious warning against confident dating. As a rule, however,primitive work is of far larger materials than its late descendants.Here I may warn against another error alleging old remains to bemodern on insufficient authority. The oft told tale of the ^^^^^~^ t-S?^^Q A^OB
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■^(jYTwI^i) Pillared Dolmen near Caheraneden, Ballyganner North, Co. Clare British Association^ is as a rule left half told. The visitors in1857 were informed that a supposed early hut had been built a yearor so before, but the rest of the story is always garbled or suppressedby would-be jesters, for the hut was found marked as ancient in themaps of twenty years earlier, and the scoffer was proved a liar—asoften happens. This shows how little any statement made by anative should be received, especially when made to a pic-nic partyof strangers. Professor Macalister was told by an old man thatcertain huts in the Fahan Group were modern,^ but the mendaciouspeasant was forced to confess the contrary by other natives present.I have very rarely had cause to doubt information, save on the ^ Tout in Ireland (ed. Rev. George Stokes), p. 2 M. Havertys Handbook, republished 1859. 3 Trans. R. I. Acad., xxxi (vii), p. 30G. 260 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND tourist tracks,! or when to

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