Poulnabrone 6
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Poulnabrone

New stone?

"I was talking to a guy at the winter solstice up at Loughcrew who said there's a standing stone very close that makes a great sounding board and he recommended shouting at it from a short distance."

Close to Loughcrew or Boleycarrigeen? If the latter he must mean Knickeen as its surface is big and concave.

Sorry, Boleycarigeen. Gave me the impression it was very close to it though, maybe he meant an outcrop rather than a standing stone as such. He did know a lot about the area here, I hadn't heard the story about hilltops called Seefin, maybe you have. Comes from 'Suigh Fionn', seat of Fionn where Fionn sat and watched the Fianna hunting in the slopes below, and then cooked their game at the circle, hence the griddle stones. Ties in with the hill figures of Fionn and the wife also. There's a whole raft of folklore about this area which was more his area of expertise than the actual megaliths themselves.