Island Wedge Tomb information

Island Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and National Monument located southeast of Mallow in County Cork, Ireland. Island Wedge Tomb is located...

Carrownlisheen Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and National Monument located on Inishmaan, Ireland. Carrownlisheen Wedge Tomb is located in...

had cultural links with one another. A wedge-shaped gallery grave or wedge tomb is a type of Irish chamber tomb. They are so named because the burial chamber...

types of megalithic tombs: court cairns, passage tombs, portal tombs and wedge tombs. The remains of over 1,000 such megalithic tombs have been recorded...

island of Ireland. Megalithic monuments are found throughout Ireland, and include burial sites (including passage tombs, portal tombs and wedge tombs...

Wedge tomb: Giant’s Grave, grid ref: H1721 2923 Inishkeen, Church and graveyard, cross-shaft and base, grid ref: H2478 4127 Inishmacsaint (Island),...

H8693 8207 Ballybriest, Wedge tomb (area surrounding the state care monument), grid ref: H7618 8845 Ballybriest, Dual court tomb, ‘Carnanbane’ (area surrounding...

NM# Monument name Description Image Townland Location 645 Altar Wedge Tomb Wedge Tomb Altar 51°30′49″N 9°38′38″W / 51.51373°N 9.64398°W / 51.51373;...

Monument Service. p. 2. Retrieved 13 August 2020. "Magheraghanrush (Sligo) : Wedge Tomb : Visit notes". Megalithomania.net. Retrieved 4 January 2019. "Irish Archaeology...

Kinsale, Dursey Island and Mizen Head. Lough Hyne, outside Skibbereen Mizen Head, the most southwesterly point of Ireland Altar Wedge Tomb, (c. 3000–2000...

of megalithic tombs: court cairns, portal dolmens, wedge-shaped gallery graves, and passage tombs. This appears to be one of the first uses of the term...

monuments can be found on the mountain including a passage tomb on the summit and a wedge tomb on the slopes near Ballyedmonduff.[citation needed] Fairy...

Greenane), a collapsed wedge tomb (Ardaragh West), and standing stone (at Greenane). Ruins and remains relating to the island's military history include...

P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aghafad, Rath, grid ref: H4603 5800 Aghagogan, Wedge tomb, grid ref: H6391 7360 and standing stone, grid ref: H6398 7351 Aghalane...

near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It was built as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a member of the Epulones religious corporation. It stands...

wedge tomb. It was excavated in 1953 by H. E. Kilbride-Jones, aided by Rúaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, of the Royal Irish Academy. The tomb consists...

of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: University Press. p. 112 "Visit Labbacallee Wedge Tomb with Discover Ireland". "Mysterious carvings and evidence of human sacrifice...

the Garavogue Cailleach. Remains of passage tombs on Slieve na Calliagh, County Meath Labbacallee wedge tomb or "The Hag's Bed", near Glanworth, County...

977822; -9.114703 (Tau Cross / Cross Inneenboy) 484 Ballyhickey Wedge Tomb Wedge Tomb Ballyhickey 52°50′04″N 8°51′20″W / 52.834306°N 8.855493°W / 52...

southeast of the island and one in the north. The Knockeen and Gaulstown Dolmens in County Waterford are exceptional examples. Wedge tombs – The largest...

Cailleach and together they lived at the site of what is now Labbacallee wedge tomb until, in a fit of jealousy after he fell in love with her sister, the...

The court cairn or court tomb is a megalithic type of chambered cairn or gallery grave. During the period, 3900–3500 BC, more than 390 court cairns were...

The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness...

Carrowkeel." PAST (2015) Springs, Kurt (2015). "Landscape Contexts of Wedge Tombs in the Northwest of Ireland". Journal of World Anthropology, Volume 2...

created in the early 20th century and forms a wedge shape between Hay Road to the east, which forms the island's original southwest shoreline, and Clayton...

Another two brick tombs were found there. The Maglizh and Kran tombs were discovered in 1965. The 60s also marked the research of Thracian tombs from the Roman...

purpose of these long barrows remains elusive, although some were used as tombs for the remains of a select group of individuals. It is also widely believed...