Seefin Passage Tomb
Seefin Passage Tomb is a passage grave located at the top of Seefin Hill in County Wicklow. It has been listed as a National Monument.
The tomb is of the Bronze Age, built around 3,300 BC, in a form familiar from other Irish passage tombs. No artefacts nor human remains have been found within it though.
The tomb was excavated by R. A. Stewart Macalister in 1931. The lack of remains may suggest that it was prepared as a tomb but no-one was eventually buried there, or that the remains were later removed.[1]
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Location
- Location map: 53°11’11"N, 6°23’41"W
Seefin Passage Tomb is located atop Seefin in the Wicklow Mountains, just south of Kilbride Army Camp. Nearby Seefingan and Seahan mountains also have cairns at their summits.[2]
Description
The tomb is a stone cairn, 80 feet in diameter and ten feet high. There are large kerb stones around the base of the tomb and the tomb has a passageway 23 feet long which opens into a chamber with five compartments. There are some carved decorations in lozenge shape, carved lines and quartz.[1][3]
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Carved cross inside Seefin tomb
Entrance doorway
View from chamber looking outward
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 {{cite web|url=http://www.kildarearchsoc.ie/seefin-passage-tomb-sunday-21st-april-2013/ Seefin Passage Tomb, Sunday 21st April 2013]: Kildare Archaeological Society
- ↑ Hidden Ireland: The mystery of the 5,000-year-old empty tomb on top of a Wicklow mountain: Neil Jackman in The Journal (July 2013)
- ↑ County Wicklow - selected monuments: Irish Megaliths
