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Killaclohane Portal Tomb is a megalithic tomb located in the townland of Killaclohane, about 2 km east of Milltown, County Kerry, Ireland. This Neolithic tomb dates to 3800 BC and is Kerry’s oldest man-made structure and earliest identified burial monument.
View from the south-side, with a portal stone at the right (east-facing side) Poulnabrone dolmen consists of a slab-like tabular capstone (or table-stone) supported by two pillar stones on either side which create a chamber that tapers eastwards. Two portal stones at its lower end mark the tomb's entrance. [6]
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Wales has more than 250 Neolithic burial sites, with some among the most remarkable in Europe. ... DNA evidence suggests that the earliest monuments, such as portal dolmens (or cromlechs in Welsh ...
Proleek dolmen is composed of two portal stones, a lower backstone and a massive capstone, which weighs about 40 tonnes. [5] The portal faces northwest. 90 metres (100 yd) to the SE is a Wedge-shaped gallery grave ("Giant's Grave") with a 6.7 m (22 ft) gallery.
The portal tomb most likely dates from around 3500 BC, and is considered one of the finest examples of portal tombs in the region, [2] and was first recorded by George Victor Du Noyer in 1864. [4] The tomb faces south east into the hillside, and consists of two east-facing portal stones which are 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) high, with a door stone ...
Poulnabrone dolmen, the Burren, County Clare, Ireland.. The main types in Northwestern Europe, particularly Ireland, include passage graves, court cairn, and menhir.. All these types of tomb were built from large slabs of rock which were uncut or worked only slightly.
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