I've just been reading a survey of the Rathcroghan area. Rathcroghan was one of the royal sites like Tara and Emain Macha - except this one was really, really big!
The survey covers an area approximately 10km x 10km around the main site - Rath Cruachan - and contains 169 sites that date from the Neolithic to the early Iron Age. These include an innaugral complex, passage tombs, loads of barrows, mounds, cursuses and henges upto 150m in diameter. Forget the Giant's Ring - these suckers have burial mounds inside them too.
There is also a cave there called Oweynagat - The Cave of the Cat - which the Annals tell us the priests used to go into to commune with their gods. It has conjoined barrows similar to those found at Tara and some of te ring barrows reach 60m in diameter - I think some of these may be flattened henges.
It kind of puts Tara to shame really and the sheer volume of sites makes this possibly the most dense site outside of Carnac.
 Reply | with quote | Posted by FourWinds
19th May 2006ce
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One amazingly big complex (FourWinds, May 19, 2006, 05:53)- Re: One amazingly big complex (bawn79, May 19, 2006, 07:26)
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