| Connacht
Leinster
Munster
Ulster
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| l've heard these sacred
tombs and circles refered to as the phone booths or call boxes to God,
the gods or the "other world". A quantity of research indicates that these
"Ancient Temples" were sited mathematically and often with a connection
to each other. Visiting them can be very moving spiritually. |
| Barrow: |
long passage tomb with
chambers either side, very few in Ireland. |
| Boulder
Tomb: |
like a portal tomb but
smaller with large boulder capstone mounted on boulders |
| Cairn: |
general term for a tomb
still covered with an earth and/or stone cover. |
| Cist: |
small bronze age stone
box tomb often sited near a stone circle. |
| Court
Tomb: |
large chambered passage
tomb with uncovered court area at the entrance. |
| Crannog: |
not sacred but fascinating
man-made residential island in a lake. |
| Dolmen: |
general "travel guide"
term for a portal, boulder or wedge tomb without a cairn cover. |
| Earthwork: |
general term for a large
tombless grass mound, probably sacred, maybe residential. |
| Fulacht
Fiadh: |
efficient community
cooking system using hot stones in water, often by stone circles. |
| Henge: |
stoneless ceremonial
circle often circled by trees, may have been a stone circle. |
| Passage
Tomb: |
stone passage leads
to multiple chambers, often in crucifix formation. |
| Portal
Tomb: |
single chamber with
large capstone mounted on tall "portal" stones and backstone. |
| Ring
Fort: |
pre-Christian "versions"
were usually combination of henge and small earthwork. |
| Standing
Stone: |
usually a remaining
stone of a circle or tomb, but sometimes a sacred alignment stone. |
| Stone
Circle: |
sacred meeting, trading,
educational, ceremonial, prayer area, bronze age church? |
| Sweat
Box: |
not sacred but curious
stone structured ancient sauna system |
| Wedge
Tomb: |
wedge shaped, single
or multiple chamber, with triangular capstone and walled sides |
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