Clermont Carn (),
also known as Black Mountain, is a mountain that rises to in the
Cooley Mountains
The Cooley Mountains () are on the Cooley Peninsula in northeast County Louth in Ireland. They consist of two ridges running northwest to southeast, separated by the valley of Glenmore with the Big River running through it.
Slieve Foy, at ...
of
County Louth, Ireland. It is at the border with Northern Ireland, and is also the location of the
Clermont Carn transmission site
Clermont Carn (), also known as Black Mountain, is a mountain that rises to in the Cooley Mountains of County Louth, Ireland. It is at the border with Northern Ireland, and is also the location of the Clermont Carn transmission site. The mou ...
. The mountain's name refers to an ancient burial
cairn on its summit, and to
Lord Clermont of
Ravensdale.
Cairn
The 'carn' in the mountain's name refers to an ancient burial monument on its summit, also known as 'Black Mountain Chambered Cairn' or 'Ravensdale Park Cairn'. This cairn is in diameter and over high, with the remains of another trapezoidal cairn long in the southwest part. Three
lintels are in position and the rear part is
corbelled. Surrounding this was a court (5.5 × 7 m) and a gallery containing at least two burial chambers.
It was built in the early
Neolithic
The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...
, c. 4000–3500 BC, and forms part of the
Clyde Clyde may refer to:
People
* Clyde (given name)
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Places
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Australia
* Clyde, New South Wales
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Canada
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Carlingford group of
court cairn
The court cairn or court tomb is a megalithic type of chambered cairn or gallery grave. During the period, 3900–3500 BCE, more than 390 court cairns were built in Ireland and over 100 in southwest Scotland. The Neolithic (New Stone ...
s. In recent decades the site has been disturbed by quarrying and blasting. It is a protected
National Monument.
Gallery
File:Approach Clermont.jpg, Approach road to Clermont summit
File:Clermont 2RN distant.jpg, Summit seen from Church Hill Road Jonesborough County Armagh
References
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Mountains and hills of County Louth