The largest of the three is marked Cromlech in Ord. of Browne’s Hill, or Browneshill House, also called Mount Browne, are three dolmens. In the Barony of Carlow, i n the Townland of Kernanstown, and Parish of Urghin, two miles E. In it, he describes the Brownshill / Kernanstown structure thus: William Copeland Borlase (1848 – 1899) wrote a lengthy treatise in three volumes on The Dolmens of Ireland, their Distribution, Structural Characteristics, and Affinities in Other Countries together with the folk-lore attaching to them and traditions of the Irish people published in 1897. Historically, ‘Dolmen’ was the most common term for these archaeological structures. Above – the back (west face) of the capstone: Finola is standing at the southern tip įinola is giving scale to the portal tomb in the header picture, where the two ‘portal stones’ and central ‘gate stone’ support the east side of the capstone: these features are common to these structures across Ireland, Britain and Europe. Cremation was the preferred burial rite and these date to the Neolithic from 3800 to 3200 BC. The chamber is covered by a roofstone, often of enormous size, which slopes down from the front towards the rear. Sometimes a stone between the portals closes the entry. A single, short chamber formed by two tall portal-stones, two sidestones and a backstone. It does not recognise the once widely-used terms ‘Dolmen’ or ‘Cromlech’, but defines a variety of ‘Megalithic Tomb’ structures, of which the Portal Tomb is one: The Irish National Monuments Service, in its listing of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, has set out to regularise the names given to various structures. It’s known variously as the Brownshill Portal Tomb, or the Kernanstown Dolmen (Kernanstown is the name of the Townland, and the word ‘Dolmen’ was formerly used to describe megalithic structures which consist of a large stone slab resting on smaller boulders). Robert stands at the east face of the megalithic structure: the orientation suggests a relationship to the rising sun, possibly at significant calendrical events You’ll have to take a little diversion east out of Carlow on to the Hacketstown Road (R726) to find today’s destination: the largest prehistoric portal tomb in Europe, and perhaps in the world! This diversion will add about forty minutes to your journey: you will leave the M8 at Junction 3, head across to Carlow on the R430, and then, after Carlow, meet the M9 at Junction 4 and continue up to Dublin. How far you want to stray from the ease and directness of the motorway in your explorations is entirely up to you. It may be an aspect of medieval history, architecture, stained glass or – as in today’s example – archaeology.
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Our ‘ Off the M8‘ series is intended to make your journeys across Ireland far more interesting! We travel between Cork and Dublin fairly regularly and, each time, we determine to search out something new.
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