Loughcrew (Megalithic Landscape)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 07, 2023 09:12 AM
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History
Loughcrew (County Meath, Ireland) is the site of a funereal landscape of the fourth millennium BCE that includes more than twenty megalithic tombs spread across four hilltop areas: Carnbane East, Carnbane West, Carrickbrack, and Patrickstown Hill.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/398415800
53.7437671059, -7.1228703931
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Loughcrew Megalithic Tombs (4000 BC - 3000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Carnbane West (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis, hill
- See Further:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Loughcrew (Megalithic Landscape): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/398415800> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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