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From the rear of the tomb.

Looking into the gallery

The front ‘court-like’ stones, seen from inside the chamber.

Looking into the chamber from the rear.

From the northern side.

Viewed from the approach along the road, behind are some houses just a few dozen metres away.

The view from the rear of the tomb over lake Inchiquin and the southern and greener area of the Burren.

Looking from the rear of the chamber, straight through it and directly at Parknabinnia (Cl. 67) in the red box. I’ve blown up the original shot to be completly sure!

How else are you going to know how big it is! The monkey hanging out of it is me, the UFO to the right is unaccounted for.

Looking up at the entrance from the altar-like outcrop.

I’m only in this for scale!

Looking north at the tomb entrance through the odd notch that seems to be cut out of the centre stone in a three (possibly more) stone “alignment”. There is another large rounded boulder directly behind the notched stone, again in line with the tomb. Disclaimer: This is just an observation, most likely means nothing!

The view south (as from the tomb entrance) through the notched stone (there is a rounded stone in front of this one) points at a notch in the horizon where two hills meet.

Sunset 10th June 2005

Late evening 10th June 2005

There were quite a few people here today so some volunteers were comandeered to block the strong daylight coming in through the entrance which washed out previous photos.

The side-on view as you approach through the trees.

Looking into the larger chamber, from the entrance.

Cairn D from near cairn C

Cup marks on one of the stones, they are actually clearer to see in a smaller photo than in a large one, go figure...

The sun was right behind it so it was hard to get a decent photo from any angle except above it, here you can see the partially collapsed chamber and the ivy growing up the front topping the capstone with a fringe.

28/4/05

The gorse and bracken have retreated, exposing a very nice tomb with nicely craggy stones and a very clear court to the front.

The interior.

28/4/05

Tomb 57

Taken at sunset 24/4/05, from Tomb 7 at Carrowmore

Inside the chamber, pasted together from three photos, donations towards a fish eye lens welcome!

Tomb 5 near dusk 24/4/05. Just an incredible place.

Just doesn’t look right at any angle but a bit of sunset tones makes up for its inadequacies

The reconstruction of a wooden henge structure at Knowth.

Photo of me and the dolmen for scale.

‘North’ side silhouette, 26-3-05

Snail eye view from the south side, 26-3-05.

The phallic stone outside the western entrance.

Close up of cairn W at approx. 7.00am 20-3-05, the fog prevented any Equinox sun entering Cairn T so we made do getting atmospheric shots of the satellite tombs and artwork.

Cairn W on an extremly foggy Spring Equinox eve (20th March 2005).

From the rear, taken 7th Feb. 2005. It wont be too long before this sculpture will be buried in brambles.

Embedded in its cairn.

8.45am 27th February 2005.

A brief dark patch on an otherwise sunny day, 27th Feb 2005.

27th Feb, 2005

Taken 24-2-2005

Taken 24-2-2005

This was not created deliberately! Taken straight from the camera (Nikon D70) and resized. I think either my camera needs a trip to the repair shop, or else some freaky spirits were listening to Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix at the time I took this. I hope its the freaky spirits.

In a blizzard of snow! 22-2-05

The massive crater created by the botched and incompetent excavation attempt in the last century.

A face on view of the flint macehead (copy) found in Knowth showing a distinct ‘face’ with eyes, beard, hair and an opening for the handle forming a mouth.

Side on silhouette view on a crisp February evening.

I’ve been waiting for months to take this photo, this tomb is just so big you can walk inside and shine a torch around to get great effects. The red light at the back is Carlow town.