Knockawaddra E

Nearest town:
Dunmanway (8km WNW)
OS reference:
W2721845936
OS sheets:
86, 89
Latitude:
51° 39' 40.85 N
Longitude:
9° 3' 7.04 W
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Images

Image of Knockawaddra E (Stone Row / Alignment) by gjrk

Picture taken at the most northerly, intermediate, point at which you can stand and still see both Northern and Southern rows. Youngfella straying in.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk Jan 16, 2010
Image of Knockawaddra E (Stone Row / Alignment) by gjrk

Looking SW. It’d need verification, but the pair seems to be oriented on an area where the winter solstice sun should set. Difficult to be sure of the extent of the ‘blindfolding’ by the rise to the west.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk Jan 16, 2010
Image of Knockawaddra E (Stone Row / Alignment) by gjrk

Looking northwest towards the crest of the hill. The skyscraping line of Knockawaddra West is close above to the left, but invisible from this point.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk Feb 2, 2008
Image of Knockawaddra E (Stone Row / Alignment) by gjrk

The eastern stone, seamed with quartz and seemingly cut off at such a point.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk Feb 2, 2008
Image of Knockawaddra E (Stone Row / Alignment) by gjrk

A strong evening sun: 1 Feb 2008.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk Feb 2, 2008

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Knockawaddra E

gjrk
gjrk Jul 12, 2008

Nothing relevant to megalithia, but I was up past here today and my son shouted; “Look at the rabbits Daddy!” A pale brown patch in the hedge behind the stones had risen and separated into three wild deer. The rare warm day and the calm must have invited them out of the forest. Fauna, don’t ya love it?

Permission to visit both Knockawaddra rows should be obtained at the farmhouse at the beginning of the access-track, on the by-road to the east. Very nice people and interested in the monuments on their land.

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