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Court Tomb von Doon
DatedEst. 3750–2900 BCE
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Overview
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Overview
The Court Tomb von Doon is a court tomb (court cairn) in the townland of Doon, on the edge of Ballyconnell, County Cavan, in the Republic of Ireland, at the foot of Slieve Rushen. It is a dual court tomb with two galleries. The catalogue gives a typological dating estimate of 3750 to 2900 BCE.
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The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Court Tomb von Doon
The monument is a dual court tomb with two galleries, each nine metres long and each divided into three chambers.
DescriptionSources for this section
- Wikipedia (German): Court Tomb von DoonCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (German): Court Tomb von DoonCC BY-SA 4.0
The monument is a dual court tomb with two galleries, each nine metres long and each divided into three chambers. Eleven stones survive along the north side and seven in the south. The site is surrounded by tall trees; it is heavily disturbed and overgrown with bushes.
ContextSources for this section
- Wikipedia (German): Court Tomb von DoonCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (German): Court Tomb von DoonCC BY-SA 4.0
A court cairn or court tomb is a type of chambered cairn identified by an open, uncovered courtyard connected to one or more roofed burial chambers. In the period 3900 to 3500 BCE more than 390 court cairns were built in Ireland. The courtyard is oval or circular, with U-shaped and semicircular courts also known, and its boundary is typically lined with large standing stones. A narrow stone-lined entry leads from the court into the roofed chambers. Many monuments of this kind were built in several phases and later reused in the Early Bronze Age.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Irish and Scottish court tombs
A court cairn or court tomb is a type of chambered cairn identified by an open, uncovered courtyard connected to one or more roofed burial chambers. In the period 3900 to 3500 BCE more than 390 court cairns were built in Ireland and over 100 in south-west Scotland, where they are called Clyde cairns or Clyde-Carlingford cairns. The Clyde cairns are generally considered the earliest chambered cairns in Scotland, and they are distributed from the Solway Firth area north to the southern Hebrides. Many monuments were built in several phases and later reused in the Early Bronze Age.
The courtyard is oval or circular, with U-shaped and semicircular courts also known, and its boundary is typically lined with large standing stones. A narrow stone-lined entry leads from the court into the roofed chambers. At Creevykeel in County Sligo, the first court cairn excavated in Ireland, Harvard archaeologists worked in 1935 and concluded that the Neolithic in Ireland began in 3900 BCE, more than a hundred years before the first appearance of court tombs, and that court tombs were widely reused in the Early Bronze Age. Excavations at court tombs have yielded cremated and unburnt human bone and round-bottomed pottery.
In Scotland, Cairnholy in Dumfries and Galloway is the site of two chambered tombs of the Clyde type on a hillside overlooking Wigtown Bay, 4 kilometres east of Carsluith; the two lie within 150 metres of each other.
Court tombs are dated by radiocarbon dates of the bone they contain and the pottery.
When visiting, look for the standing stones of the forecourt and the entrance to the chambers.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Court cairn, Wikipedia: Chambered cairn, Wikipedia: Cairn Holy, Wikipedia: Passage grave · CC BY-SA 4.0
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 3750–2900 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for court tombs in Ireland; this site has not been dated itself. The earliest court cairns were built around 3750 BC and new monuments continued to be built and existing ones enlarged until 2900 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
Ireland
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 54°07′17″ N, 7°34′55″ WFor a GPS or map app: 54.12131, -7.58198
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Wedge tombKilnavert Wedge Tomb2500–2000 BCE
- Passage tomb (passage grave)Passage Tomb von Carn3400–2900 BCE
- Megalithic complexDerryragh Megalithen
Gartnanoul Court Tomb3750–2900 BCE- Wedge tombWedge Tomb von Greenan
- Menhir (standing stone)Leagaun Standing Stone2800–1800 BCE
- Portal tomb (portal dolmen)Portal Tomb von Aghavas4000–3000 BCE
Finn McCool's Fingers4500–1200 BCE
Sources
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- 01Wikidata Q123694064wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
Image files
- Doon (0).jpgWanfried-DublinCC0
- Doon (3).jpgWanfried-DublinCC0
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Kilnavert Wedge Tomb5.6 km SW
- Passage Tomb von Carn5.9 km SE
- Derryragh Megalithen7.2 km SW
- Gartnanoul Court Tomb14 km SE
- Wedge Tomb von Greenan14 km NW
- Leagaun Standing Stone19 km NE
- Portal Tomb von Aghavas20 km SW
- Finn McCool's Fingers22 km SE
- Portal Tomb von Carrickclevan24 km S
- Wedge Tombs im Burren25 km NW
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Text, licence and sources
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- Wikipedia (German): Court Tomb von DoonCC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata Q123694064CC0