The hill rises out of the surrounding bog like an island, often these hills are likened to islands in folklore.
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This graveyard where there is there is meant to be the remains of an abbey is where St. Brigid is meant to have been ordained a nun.
If you look very hard you can see the hills of the curragh in the background
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From right to left, the Hill of Allen which is strongly associated with Fionn McCool, the chair of Kildare (Grange Hill) & Dunmurry Hill.
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This is really close to the road running thru little curragh to kildare
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An unusual hump with the ring-barrow in the mid-ground
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Not to be confused with this military structure
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This military structure is right beside the barrow, part of the barrow can be seen in the left foreground.
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Part of the bank where there is no yellow furze
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You can just make out the cairn on top, judging by the size of the mountain this could be quite a big cairn
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There is a light, I was hoping this would come out better
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One of the stones that have been split, if you look carefully at the end of the stone u can see where the holes where drilled and where it cracked, possibly due to expansion of frozen water
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I read in Archaeology Irelands pull out on this circle that some people think the entrance stones profile reflects the shape of the mountains in the background
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If you look in the very centre of the pic where the trees meet the clearing is approx where boleycarrigen is
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On the west side, the debris/chevaux-de-frise is inside the ring.
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From the summit of the hill, looking towards the Keadeen, you also get an idea of the length of the wall
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Some of the walls of the hill-fort, with debris/chevaux-de-frise on the outside
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