court tombs

These two court tombs are surrounded by a 25 metre long cairn.

There is a 19th century graveyard as well as 4,000 year old megalithic court tombs.

Court tombs are rectangular burial chambers.

Originally built as two court tombs adjacent to each other in a north south alignment, both tombs have their own two chambers.

Horn Head has many remains of Neolithic stone circles, court tombs, passage tombs and prehistoric field boundaries.

The Irish court tombs, British long barrows, and German Steinkisten belong to this group.

Megalithic tombs are relatively common, with court graves or court tombs being the oldest, some dating back to around 3500 BC.

Excellently preserved examples of their court tombs can be seen at Mainnéar na Mortlaidh and An Clochán Mór.

Four main types of megalithic tomb have been identified: Portal Tombs, Court Tombs, Passage Tombs and Wedge Tombs.

Court tombs, wedge tombs and portal tombs have been identified and several other tombs and structures in the townland are listed as unclassified or as hut sites.

There are four distinct types of Irish megalithic tombs type--court tombs, portal tombs, passage tombs and wedge tombs-examples of all four types can be found in County Mayo.

There has long been debate about how the different tomb types - 'passage tombs', 'court tombs', 'portal dolmens,' and 'wedge tombs' - all of which occur in County Sligo - should be interpreted.

The area contains the remains of 20 or so large stone tombs and the King's Ring at Clontygora, and the Ballymacdermot tomb are two of the best examples of Court Tombs in the Northern Ireland.

The earliest evidence of human settlement in Fanad is probably the existence of Megalithic court tombs in a variety of locations including Tyrladden, Drumhallagh Upper and Crevary Upper dating possibly from circa 4,000-3,500 BC.

One of the court tombs on the southern slopes appears to have three lots of concentric circles carved into the face of one of its stones, a fact not recorded or recognised in the National Monument (Ireland) register of archaeological sites (see Gallery).

Recently, the concept of this food vessels was discarded and replaced by a concept of two different traditions that rely on typology: the bowl tradition and the vase tradition, the bowl tradition being the oldest as it has been found inserted in existing Neolithic (pre-beaker) tombs, both court tombs and passage tombs.