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Irelands Stonehenge

tiompan Dec 11, 2008 19:01:40

Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:

[quote="tiompanI.m sure it can't be missed from the site . [/quote]

The hill will certainly be there, but the cairn is in the middle of quite a large hilltop. It may not be visible from so close.

Quite common to have the name cairn/carn for the summit rather than the actual wee cairn on the summit . It was the summit I was referring to . Hope this url works .

http://mountainviews.ie/mv/index.php?PHPSESSID=cc1eac55eb03e4ee83f260b920c00e5a&mtnindex=434

mythicalireland Dec 13, 2008 13:14:53

Replying to tiompan

I'm going to be out at Ireland's Stonehenge on the Solstice, so I hope to make some tentative measurements and observations.

tiompan Dec 13, 2008 14:22:21

Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:

FourWinds wrote:

[quote="tiompanI.m sure it can't be missed from the site . [/quote]

The hill will certainly be there, but the cairn is in the middle of quite a large hilltop. It may not be visible from so close.

Quite common to have the name cairn/carn for the summit rather than the actual wee cairn on the summit . It was the summit I was referring to . Hope this url works .

http://mountainviews.ie/mv/index.php?PHPSESSID=cc1eac55eb03e4ee83f260b920c00e5a&mtnindex=434

A few pics of the panorama would be nice Anthony .

FourWinds Dec 13, 2008 17:07:04

Replying to tiompan

tiompa wrote:

Quite common to have the name cairn/carn for the summit rather than the actual wee cairn on the summit .

Not when you're talking about something being visible. You wouldn't say that you can stand on the sea front at Strand in Sligo and be able to see Maeve's Cairn just because you can see Knocknarea.

The name on Mountain Views is misleading and I'm surprised at them - they're usually so good. A few hillwalkers might call it Clermont Carn Mountain, but its proper name is Black Mountain. As Lord Clermont was an interfering busy-body antquarian who really shouldn't be immortalised in anyway whatsoever I wish people would come up with a better name for the cairn.