HERITY, Michael. Irish Passage Graves. Neolithic Tomb-Builders in Ireland and Britain 2500 B.C. With maps and illustrations. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF LAST WORK PUBLISHED BY I.U.P)

Dublin: I.U.P. 1974. Folio. pp. x, 308. Quarter morocco on marbled boards. Special edition limited to 100 copies. Signed and numbered by Michael Herity on limitation page. Top edge green. A fine copy. Rare.

There are over 300 passage graves in Ireland and their remains can still be seen in such places as the top of Loughcrew, in County Meath, on Knocknarea in Sligo, in the Dublin mountains and in counties Down, Tyrone and Antrim. The ambitious ideals of the builders of these tombs, apparent in the magnificence of their architecture and their dramatic setting, are also revealed in the ornamentation on the walls of the tombs. The sophistication of the art is matched by the grave-furniture which is found with the cremated remains of the dead in the tombs. Dr. Herity's original and incisive survey gives a complete description of the Irish passage graves.

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