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The place of megalithic tomb cemeteries in Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gabriel Cooney
Gabriel Cooney*
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Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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The megalithic chamber tombs that are the most striking monuments of the Irish Neolithic have long been divided by the shape of their plans. With the shapes there goes a characteristic pattern of distribution and of spacing in the landscape, and from this arise some puzzling questions of sequence as to how ‘cemeteries’ grew up. A fresh view is taken of this old problem

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 245 , December 1990 , pp. 741 - 753
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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