CianMcLiam

Sometime around October 2005

An oldie from 2005

Hmmm, maybe if you stand three feet from your screen and squint, you should make our curving lines of a large sprial-esque motif. This is impossible to see with a naked guy.

A close up of that carving on the front of the basin in tomb B1

This is one amazing looking basin, the simple carving on its projecting front needs no further elaboration once you sit confronting this, for which my freudian subconcious suggested the name ‘The Devils Cauldron’.

The full carved surface, note the basins which are roughly pecked with no attempt to smooth them out.

Night time mist with the outcrops bearing rock art poking through

The sloping side has two close spaced cup and rings

A basin with lines joining two multiple rings with centre basins.

Now implanted in a wall surrounding a house.

Dromtine Rock Art.

This unusual panel has two basins with radial lines leading to pairs of multiple rings, some of which have basins in the centre. Other markings include cup and multiple rings with gutters and lines.

Carved orthostat on left side of chamber

Two carved orthostats from the right hand side of chamber.

Sunset viewed through the ‘roofbox’ of Cairn G

Distant view of Cairn B perched on top of its mountain ridge, viewed from the end of the local road.

Cairns H and G and a northerly view across the mountains of Sligo and Donegal. I think that is Benbulben in the far distance.

Art and Performance

Looking out of the passage of Cairn S from the chamber with the sun about to dip below the horizon

Near-Bealtaine sunset as seen from rear of chamber, as reported by Martin Brennan

Noticed these two motifs while making my way back to the car, from the middle section of the outcrop.

With a distinctly ‘photographer-shaped’ shadow across the stone.

Sloping panels of very weathered carvings, eastern side of outcrop

Three shots merged to show the descent of the sun as viewed from the outcrop itself

The outcrop with Croagh Patrick in the background

Carvings on the ‘capstone’ on top of the outcrop and the sun setting into the notch at the bottom of the slope

On a Roll... The sun slowly reaches the peak of the mountain before sliding down the edge in a rather spectacular fashion 17/4/08

The ‘Doagh Island-like’ parallel grooves are more apparent in this pic, artificial or not???

The entire panel from above

This stone now sits not a million miles from ‘The Witches Stone’ so I think it needs it’s own moniker. I think ‘The Alien Spore’ is quite apt.

The Western Entrance

The ‘Sundial Stone’, subject of Dr. Euan McKie’s recent lecture at the visitors centre. As you can see, some damaged or indistinct areas make the proposed 14 month calendar hypothosis a little dubious. This damaged area was imaginatively reconstructed in a book by N.L. Thomas.

Looking towards Knockmore, the piece of rock art is in a garden just past the farm sheds visible on the hill side.