A passage grave or passage tomb consists of one or more burial chambers covered in earth or stone and having a narrow access passage made of large stones...
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Fourknocks Passage Tomb is a passage grave and National Monument located in County Meath, Ireland. is located 2.7 km (1.7 mi) northwest of Naul, near...
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Newgrange (redirect from Newgrange passage tomb)
(five miles) west of the town of Drogheda. It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3200 BC, making it older than...
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Passage tombs are a category of Megalithic monument from the Neolithic period. They are found in most regions of Ireland but are more prevalent in the...
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Matthewstown Passage Tomb is a passage tomb situated in County Waterford, Ireland. The tomb is located 1.6 km (1 mile) north of Fenor. Most of the surrounding...
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Duntryleague passage tomb, also known as Dermot & Grania's Bed, is a passage grave and National Monument located atop Duntryleague Hill, County Limerick...
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Dowth (redirect from Dowth Passage Tomb)
(Irish: Dubhadh) is a Neolithic passage tomb near the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland. It is one of the three main tombs of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage...
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Ardmulchan Passage Tomb is a passage grave and National Monument located in County Meath, Ireland. Ardmulchan Passage Tomb is located 5.6 km (3.5 mi)...
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Knowth (redirect from Knowth Passage Tomb)
Boyne in County Meath, Ireland. It comprises a large passage tomb surrounded by 17 smaller tombs, built during the Neolithic era around 3200 BC. It contains...
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Knockroe Passage Tomb is a prehistoric site, of the Neolithic period, in the townland of Knockroe in County Kilkenny, Ireland, about 10 km north of Carrick-on-Suir...
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Gavrinis (redirect from Gavrinis passage tomb)
Gavrinis tomb, a Neolithic passage tomb built around 4200–4000 BC, making it one of the world's oldest surviving buildings. Stones inside the passage and chamber...
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Knockmany passage tomb, or Anya's Cove, is an ancient burial monument on the summit of Knockmany Hill, near the village of Augher in County Tyrone, Northern...
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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...
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Shrough Passage Tomb (/ˈʃruː/) is a passage grave and National Monument located atop Slievenamuck, County Tipperary, Ireland. Shrough Passage Tomb is located...
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Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery (redirect from Carrowkeel Passage Tomb Cemetery)
05333°N 8.37778°W / 54.05333; -8.37778 Carrowkeel is a cluster of passage tombs in south County Sligo, Ireland. They were built in the 4th millennium...
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Carrowmore (redirect from Carrowmore Passage Tomb Cemetery)
eastern boundary of the peninsula the Ballygawley Mountains have four passage tombs at their peaks. Thirty monuments survive in Carrowmore today. There...
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Seefin Passage Tomb (Irish:Tuama Pasáiste Shuí Finn) is an empty passage grave and National Monument located atop Seefin hill, County Wicklow, Ireland...
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Archaeo-optics (section Passage tomb Preservation)
Phillips suggests the midwinter sunset would have cast images inside two passage tombs. By temporarily reconstructing the collapsed roofs of these monuments...
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Mound of the Hostages (category Tombs in the Republic of Ireland)
The Mound of the Hostages (Irish: Dumha na nGiall) is an ancient passage tomb located in the Tara-Skryne Valley in County Meath, Leinster, Ireland. The...
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Malta. Retrieved 2007-07-07. "Shahr-i Sokhta". "Newgrange Stone Age Passage Tomb – Boyne Valley, Ireland". www.newgrange.com. Retrieved 2017-12-12. O'Kelly...
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Brú na Bóinne (redirect from Boyne valley tombs)
ninety monuments including passage tombs, burial mounds, standing stones and enclosures. The site is dominated by the passage tombs of Newgrange (Sí an Bhrú)...
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called the Garavogue Cailleach. Remains of passage tombs on Slieve na Calliagh, County Meath Labbacallee wedge tomb or "The Hag's Bed", near Glanworth, County...
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Neolithic tombs are structures built by humans during the New Stone Age. The main types in Northwestern Europe, particularly Ireland, include passage graves...
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and earthworks—dating from the Neolithic to the Iron Age—including a passage tomb (the "Mound of the Hostages"), burial mounds, round enclosures, a standing...
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known as Queen Maeve's Cairn, which is believed to contain a Neolithic passage tomb. In recent years there has been concern that the ancient cairn, a protected...
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pagoda and tumulus, the princess' burial comprised an entry passage, tomb entrance, internal passage, and burial chamber. The burial chamber is underground...
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Miosgán Meadhbha (redirect from Queen Maeve's tomb)
summit of Knocknarea in County Sligo, Ireland. It is thought to conceal a passage tomb from the Neolithic (New Stone Age). It is the largest cairn in Ireland...
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One of the cairns at Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery in Ireland, which covers a passage tomb....
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ancient burial cairns, one of which is the remains of the highest known passage tomb in Ireland. In Irish mythology the mountain was associated with the mythical...
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