Glantane East

Glantane East is a complex of prehistoric monuments in the townland Glantane East, irish At Gleanntan Thoir at Boherboy, near Millstreet in the west of County Cork in Ireland. Closely adjacent can be found here:

• The wedge tomb, popularly called "The Flags"
• Two stone circles
• A stone row

The wedge tomb

The only 90 cm high support stones supporting a very shallow 2.4 m² large capstone resting in three-point support on two side stones and the rear stone. The mid-cut stone entrance is between the two side stones. Little remains of the cairn filling this quite similar as in Iceland small wedge tomb. It is a National Monument. Wedge tombs (Eng. " wedge tombs ", formerly "wedge -shaped gallery grave" called ) are seamless, mostly unarticulated megalithic monuments of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.

The stone circles

The tomb located near the Wedge stone circle has five meters in diameter. Five of his eleven small stones are still standing, while six fell into the surrounding moat. Outside the circle are in the north and south two four meters high, again built menhirs, one has fallen over again. In the middle of the circle there is a big hole. Here, a boulder was probably tomb. This part of the circuit in a small group of circles with ditch and rampart, as they are present even in Reanascreena in ( County Cork) and Lissyviggeen in County Kerry.

400 meters and surrounded by trees, there is another stone circle of Cork and Kerry series (axial stone circle ) It has a diameter of 4.7 m. 10 stones and the axial stone are available. The two portal stones are about 81 cm high.

The stone row

800 meters from the wedge tomb is a stone row consisting of three stones. A stone is 2.4 m high and intact. The other two are broken and only about 90 cm high.