Megalithic Poems

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Thanks SL - duly added to stack.

Went to Blarney a couple of years ago - just a short bus ride from the centre of Cork. Spent so much time in Blarney Castle gardens though that I never got to kiss the Stone. Some interesting features in the gardens that look like megalithic barrows and the remains of circles - they've been messed around with so much though that it's difficult to tell what they may have once been.

Avoid kissing the stone at all costs, its claimed that staff in the castle have taken liberty to urinate on it from time to time!

The stone circle, kitchen etc are probably all 16th c follies built by James Jefferies. The blarney stone has plenty of origon stories Jacobs pillow, the other part of the Lia Fail or a gift from Cormac Laidir McCarthy by the Corca Laoidhe Goddess Cliodhna. Probably alot of Blarney. There is alot of authentic history n stuff to the place somewhat overshadowed by mass tourism brought about by Father Prout. Working on a book on it...