Abbeyquarter North Tomb
DatedEst. 3400–2900 BCE
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Das Passage Tomb von Abbeyquarter North befindet sich im Townland Abbeyquarter North (irisch Ceathrú na Mainistreach Thuaidh) auf einem Kreisverkehr an der Straße Garavogue Villas in einer Wohnsiedlung im Osten von Sligo im County Sligo in Irland.
Das Passage Tomb ist von der gleichen Art wie die nicht weit entfernten Megalithanlagen bei Carrowmore mit einer mittigen kreuzförmigen Kammer.
Während des 19. Jahrhunderts versuchte die katholische Kirche, das auch als Garavogue Feen Fort bekannte Denkmal, zu entfernen, fand aber keine Helfer. Die Kirche errichtete 1950 mehrere Statuen im Kreisverkehr.
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Abbeyquarter North Tomb is a passage tomb, also described as a passage grave, in the Townland Abbeyquarter North, known in Irish as Ceathrú na Mainistreach Thuaidh. It stands on a roundabout beside Garavogue Villas in a residential area east of Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland.
The monument belongs to the same type as the nearby megalithic sites at Carrowmore, with a central cruciform chamber. More precise details of its structure and surviving stones are not given in the available information.
Abbeyquarter North Tomb is dated to 3400 BCE to 2900 BCE by typological estimate. It is also known as Garavogue Feen Fort. During the 19th century, the Catholic Church tried to remove the monument, but no helpers were found.
The church erected several statues in the roundabout in 1950. Its study is connected with published work on passage tombs and megalithic Ireland, including Seán Ó Nualláin and Eamon Cody’s 1987 article and James H. Brennan’s 1994 guide.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Passage Tomb von Abbeyquarter North", shown in the original language.
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Abbeyquarter North Tomb is a passage tomb (passage grave) in County Sligo, Ireland. A typological estimate: 3400 BCE to 2900 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Passage Tomb von Abbeyquarter North", shown in the original language.
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Passage Tomb von Abbeyquarter North”, translated from German. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Irish and British passage tombs
A passage tomb is a burial chamber covered in earth or stone, with a narrow access passage made of large stones. The type is found along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe, and in Ireland and Britain passage tombs often lie in large clusters, called cemeteries. Ireland has four great ones, known as the "big four": Brú na Bóinne in the Boyne Valley, Loughcrew, Carrowkeel and Carrowmore, each with its own character. Most were built in the fourth millennium BCE.
The Boyne Valley is the heart of the tradition. Brú na Bóinne in County Meath comprises at least ninety monuments, dominated by Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, built in the 32nd century BCE. Newgrange, built around 3100 BCE, is older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. It has a façade of white quartz cobbles ringed by engraved kerbstones, and is aligned so that the rising sun on the winter solstice shines through a "roofbox" above the entrance and floods the inner chamber. Knowth, a large passage tomb surrounded by 17 smaller ones, holds the largest assemblage of megalithic art in Europe and is ringed by 127 kerbstones. Dowth has mostly been left as a ruin, with a crater from an 1847 excavation.
Across the Irish Sea, Bryn Celli Ddu on Anglesey is considered one of the finest passage tombs in Wales. Visitors can go through its stone passage into the chamber, and the site was once a henge with a stone circle; it may have been used to mark the summer solstice. Barclodiad y Gawres, "the giantess's apronful", on the same island is a cruciform passage grave with decorated stones.
When visiting, look at the kerbstones for carved spirals and lozenges, at the direction of the passage, and at the quartz and other stones that came from far away.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Passage grave, Wikipedia: Newgrange, Wikipedia: Knowth, Wikipedia: Brú na Bóinne, Wikipedia: Dowth, Wikipedia: Bryn Celli Ddu, Wikipedia: Barclodiad y Gawres, Wikipedia: Loughcrew, Wikipedia: Carrowmore · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- 1950
Die Kirche errichtete 1950 mehrere Statuen im Kreisverkehr.
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Est. 3400–2900 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for passage tombs in Ireland; this site has not been dated itself. The passage grave of Newgrange in Ireland belongs to the megalithic constructions of c. 3400 BC.Source for this date
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- 54°16′09″ N, 8°27′38″ WFor a GPS or map app: 54.26916, -8.46051
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- Court tomb (court cairn)Cummeen Court Cairn3750–2900 BCE
Listoghil3095–1955 BCE
Magheraghanrush Court Tomb3050–2950 BCE
Cloghagadaide- Wedge tombCoolbeg2500–2000 BCE
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