Glantane East N

Nearest town:
Boherboy (17km NNW)
OS reference:
W283840
OS sheet:
79
Latitude:
52° 0' 12.81 N
Longitude:
9° 2' 39.12 W
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Image of Glantane East N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

The eastern side of the ditch, showing what may be some of the stone facing of the outer wall mentioned by Anthony Weir.

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gjrk
gjrk Apr 22, 2007
Image of Glantane East N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

Two quartz mini-boulders, in a diagonal from the foreground over the odd looking clump of grass to the middle line of the picture. While these may be dumped from the field, there isn’t a huge amount of debris thrown in here and they are both in and around the pit gouged out of the centre.

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gjrk
gjrk Apr 22, 2007
Image of Glantane East N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

A view northeast over the presumed axial stone and through the portals. rjck, while deeply involved with the survey here, still found time to step into the one wet cowshit in the field before we left.

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gjrk
gjrk Apr 22, 2007
Image of Glantane East N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

The horizon on the axial line southwest, showing a gap in the mountains which could have been the focus. Its difficult to be sure because of the ruined condition of the portals and axial stone.

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gjrk
gjrk Apr 22, 2007
Image of Glantane East N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

A view southwest through what is most probably the portals, one standing and one fallen, over what would then be the prostrate axial stone.

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gjrk
gjrk Apr 22, 2007
Image of Glantane East N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

Glantane, no longer ‘for sale’, sits in its saucer on the edge of the world.

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gjrk
gjrk Apr 22, 2007

Articles

Glantane East N

Meic
Meic Jan 28, 2012

Visited 2nd January 2012
Another site that we found en route to somewhere else ! This time we were looking for Knocknakilla, heading down the lane when I hear the shout “STONES”. A quick pull in at the junction, wait for the shower to pass then get out to see a mass of stones over in the field.
An information panel tells us that we are at Glantane East stone circle. What it doesn’t tell you is how to get in the field. So it’s a quick jump over the ditch and under the fence and head down to see what we’ve got. To be honest, it’s a bit of a mess. There’s a massive stone and an equally big one fallen at the other side of the circle. The circle has six stones still standing and there are others laying around. It is also surrounded by the remains of a fosse.
The information board says that there were possibly 11 or 13 stones in the circle originally.

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