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  2. List of megalithic monuments in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    portal tomb: 5000–6000 years -Carnfree: Roscommon-cairns, standing stones - Carrigagulla: Cork-stone circles, stone rows - Carrowkeel Tombs: Sligo: passage tombs: 5100–5400 years Carrowmore: Sligo

  3. Irish megalithic tombs - Wikipedia

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    Poulnabrone dolmen is an example of a portal tomb in the west of Ireland. Megalithic monuments in Ireland typically represent one of several types of megalithic tombs: court cairns, passage tombs, portal tombs and wedge tombs. [1] [2] The remains of over 1,000 such megalithic tombs have been recorded around Ireland. [3]

  4. Poulnabrone dolmen - Wikipedia

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    Radiocarbon dating indicates that the tomb was probably used as a burial site between 3,800 and 3,200 BC. The findings are now at the Clare Museum, Ennis, loaned from the National Museum of Ireland. [8] [12] Poulnabrone is the largest Irish portal tomb after Brownshill Dolmen in County Carlow.

  5. Kilclooney More - Wikipedia

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    Larger chamber of the eastern portal tomb in Kilclooney More with a capstone that has been described as ‘birdlike’ or ‘Concorde-like’ (Dg. 70) [1] [2]Kilclooney More (Irish: Cill Chluanadh Mhór, [3] meaning church of the pasture) [4] is a townland in the northwest of Ireland in coastal County Donegal.

  6. Newgrange - Wikipedia

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    Newgrange (Irish: Sí an Bhrú [1]) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, eight kilometres (five miles) west of the town of Drogheda. [2] It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian ...

  7. Brownshill dolmen - Wikipedia

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    Brownshill Dolmen (Irish: Dolmain Chnoc an Bhrúnaigh) is a very large megalithic portal tomb situated 3 km east of Carlow, in County Carlow, Ireland. Its capstone weighs an estimated 150 metric tons, and is reputed to be the heaviest in Europe. [2] The tomb is listed as a National Monument. [3]

  8. Killaclohane Portal Tomb - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Aideen's Grave - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] The tomb is consists of two portal stones, an entrance stone and a collapsed colossal roof stone, which weighs an estimated 75 tonnes. The capstone is the second largest in Ireland after the one at Brownshill dolmen in County Carlow. The tomb has a single chamber. [4] The name Aideen is said to refer to Étaín, a figure in Irish ...