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FoilnamuckStanding Stone / Menhir
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Image Credit: Bawn79 © 2012Posted by bawn79 20th October 2012ce |
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| This looks a great site, but oddly off-putting too, can't quite say why. |
Posted by thesweetcheat21st October 2012ce |
| Cause there could be a staring sheep behind the stone for all you know! |
Posted by bladup21st October 2012ce |
| Ha, perhaps that's it. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 21st October 2012ce |
| Actually, more like staring pigs – Foilnamuck = Faill na muc = cliff (or stone) of the pigs :-) |
Posted by ryaner21st October 2012ce |
| Brilliant, I like that. Actually, staring animals aside, it's always great to hear info about what place names mean like that. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 21st October 2012ce |
| Ha ha, Muck really means pig? That's great as i've wondered where the word muck comes from. |
Posted by bladup 21st October 2012ce |
| No sheep or pigs but the stone certainly looks as if it was picked because of its unusual shape or perhaps sculpted. |
Posted by bawn79 22nd October 2012ce |
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