Irish Megaliths
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houses for the dead:

court-tombs

portal-tombs
part one

passage-tombs

wedge-tombs


stone circles


petroglyphs
(rock art)


standing-stones


stone forts, crannógs & souterrains


ogam-stones &
cross-pillars


cross-pillars
& cross-slabs

 

sweathouses

 

ireland
& the phallic continuum


satan in the groin

 

the earth-mother's
lamentation


east of brittany:
megaliths of western and southern france


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IRISH PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE
part two
(continued)

More photographs of
Portal-tombs

by Anthony Weir

 

Ballykeel, county Armagh

Ballyquin, county Waterford

Ballyrenan, county Tyrone

Ballyvennaght, county Antrim

Browne's Hill, county Carlow

Fenagh Beg, county Leitrim

Glencloghlea, county Kilkenny

Goward, county Down

Kilfeaghan, county Down

Kilmogue, county Kilkenny

Leitrim, county Tyrone

Poulnabrone, county Clare

Tawnatruffaun, county Sligo

Ticloy, county Antrim

Tirnony, county [London]Derry

Wateresk, county Down

 

 


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photo by Martin Byrne
Drumanone, county Roscommon

 

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For maps of tombs and stone circles in Ulster (six counties) peatlands see:
www.peatlandsni.gov.uk/archaeology/tombs.htm#stonecirclesmap




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