We never did meet, but I will always remember your kind offer to take me around a few Dublin sites on my visit there.
I've been writing a single county guide on and off for 2 years, and my last field trip it really was a drag to get out into the wilds and slog it out there for hours on end mopping up the last of the stragglers (of which there are still many).
So, yeah, take a break. Hopefully it'll all still be there when you get your menhir-mojo back.