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Cashtal Yn Ard

54 17 '08 "N 4 21' 55" W / 54.28563, -4.3653333

The site Cashtal yn Ard in the evening light.

Cashtal yn Ard ("Castle of the Heights' in Manx ) is a site prehistory of the Isle of Man. Administered by the Manx National Heritage , the site, discovered in 1930 , sits on a hill near the river Cornaa in the parish of Maughold. It can be accessed by a footpath from Glen Mona. Major excavations took place there in 1999.

Cashtal yn Ard is a cairn of the day Neolithic , with five bedrooms, along forty meters, making it one of the largest Neolithic monuments of the British Isles .

Architecturally, it can be compared to the site of East Bennani, on the island of Arran ( Scotland ) .

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  1. Cashtal yn Ard, The Megalithic Portal.
  2. (en) The Celtic Encyclopedia, Harry Mountain, Universal-Publishers.com, 1998, ISBN 1581128908.
  3. Prehistory In Ireland, Michael Herity Eogan George Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0415048893 , P 31.

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