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Stone Circles
This quarter's 'Archaeology Ireland' has a three page feature on Stone Circles, by Muiris O'Sullivan and Liam Downey.
"The architecture and orientation of stone circles were inherently symbolic, reflecting in a fundamental way a sense of spirituality and belief in the otherworld..."
So there you are.
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A wonderful site. Two boulder burials, about 65m apart, with magnificent views to Corran and Carrigfadda. The pyramidal shape of the eastern boulder - 2.5m*1.4m*1.35m, according to the Archaeological Inventory - mirrors the shape of the latter.
Permission to visit may be obtained from the farm on the other side of the road.
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Large - 2.3m * 2.1m * 1.2m according to the Archaeological Inventory - with long views to the north and west. Four support stones, although only two and a scattering of field debris were immediately apparent.
Permission to visit may be obtained from the nearby farm.
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Save Bremore Heritage Group: Press Release
The Drogheda Independent carries the latest news from the Save Bremore campaign...
"THE Save Bremore Heritage campaign got under way with a very positive and informative meeting in the Huntsman's Inn Gormanston.
Representatives of a number of different local and regional groups met to discuss the planned deep water port and its possible impact on that area of archaeological richness..."
Article continues...
http://www.drogheda-independent.ie/news/new-road-to-port-would-be-vital-2067124.html
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An article on the loss of the last remaining stone of this circle, only ten years, or so, ago:
".., I was told by the present occupant that the farmer had grown tired of ploughing around the stone. Therefore he dug a hole and buried it."
by Alexander Jarvie.
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Alexander Jarvie has written an article about the loss, within the last few years, of the cup-marked stone at Westertown.
"...The reason given – he couldn't be bothered driving around it..."
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There was some recent curiosity on the forum about monument alignments. Here's a few that have been calculated for the axial stone circles of Cork and Kerry. Crude, but surely within symbolic range.
Nothing like seeing the real thing though, naturally ;)
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A great picture of Drombeg from the sky.
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"Can this be death?" thought Prince Andrew, looking with a quite new, envious glance at the grass, the wormwood and the streamlet of smoke that curled up from the rotating black ball. "I cannot, I do not wish to die. I love life - I love this grass, this earth, this air..." He thought this, and at the same time remembered that people were looking at him.
Leo Tolstoy, 'War and Peace', Book Three, Part II, 36.
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