Dolmain Mheatháin Bhuí / Meehambee Dolmen

Dolmain Mheatháin Bhuí / Meehambee Dolmen is the 5,500 years old dolmen in An Meathán Buí / Mihanboy Townland (aka Meehambee) west of Athlone.

Vocabulary:

dolmain [f] = dolmen
meathán [m] = meadow; (agriculture) shoot, sapling; coward
buí [adj] = yellow

meathán buí = a yellow meadow
dolmain mheatháin bhuí = a dolmen of a yellow meadow

Grammar:

Very often feminine nouns end in slender consonant and masculine with broad consonant, like “dolmain” is feminine and “meathán” is masculine, but beware there are plenty of exceptions.

Slender consonants are consonants surrounded by slender vowels “e” and “i” and broad consonants are surrounded by broad vowels “a”, “o” and “u”.

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