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The large quartz block supports the southeastern side of the cap.
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The Way Stones. That which marks the border between Earth and the Absolute must draw something of each.
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The likely line to the horizon if, as seems probable, the axial stone has been displaced.
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The line to the horizon if the axial is in its original position.
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Looking down at the monument from the higher ground to the northwest.
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The ‘internal’ view of the blade-like, free, upright stone.
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The axial stone has an internal and external shelf.
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A close-up of the external ledge on the top of the axial stone.
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Looking across the circle in an easterly direction. The external ledge is visible on top of the axial stone.
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Looking East. The stone underneath, at the left hand corner, is not a support. The stone immediately behind is.
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The nearby “megalithic structure” at Gortnascarty, looking NW to Kilkerranmore graveyard. The ruins of the old church are visible to the rear.
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Looking back east across the valley to the circle, from Burgatia hill. Thanks to the owner of the house, just above the left-hand side of the axial in the next picture, who let me stand in her garden.
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Looking over the axial, from just east of the portals.
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The south-facing side of the boulder. The weight rests on the centrally placed stone, its partner on the north-facing side and a smaller slab resting on a mound of stones, at the right-hand side of the picture/northeastern end.
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Looking diagonally across the boulder, to the south.
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Looking along the boulder in a southwesterly direction.
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A closer shot of the southernmost cupmarks.
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Looking East into the remains of the gallery. The northward lean of the slabs is very apparent from this angle.
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Looking South. The remaining northern slab is on the left, the two southern stones behind and to the right.
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Looking North at the outsides of the southern slabs.
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Looking slightly south of west, on an estimated tomb axis-line. The four-poster at Lettergorman N is located somewhere behind those hedges north of the hill at Kippagh.
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The smaller stones tucked tightly between the two side-slabs. The quartz end of the nearest one faces west, towards the camera.
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The block at the inside base of the southernmost side-stone.
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The standing stone, taken from the old trackway.
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The smooth, tidy eastern stone is reminiscent of the remaining pillar at Carrigagrenane N.
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The wonderful colour mixture on the northern face of the middle stone. The two fresh looking boulders alongside are field clearance.
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This pillar when erect would have stood a similar height to the tallest stone at Knockawaddra (2.9m). It is 3.55m long and 1.2m wide. (Dimensions taken from Archaeological Inventory of Cork)
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The mysterious additional stone, jutting out of the nettles to the left of the prostrate western pillar.
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On the western horizon, the Carrigfadda group presents a similar horned layout to the view from Caherkirky, to the north.
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The axial stone – flat, horizontal top that slopes steeply inwards and the common diagonal tail-off on the northern side.
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The sheer, flattened top of the stone south of the axial – covered in a pinkish quartz that catches the southern swing of the sun. A very helpful lean outwards, presumably not an original feature, accentuates the effect.
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Others find long-hidden panels of rock art; circles, rings, cups and spirals. It is my fate to reveal modernish abbreviations. Neatly done this time though, in fairness. The top of the second stone north of the axial – who or what is SED?
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Looking southwest towards the circle from the possible boulder-burial.
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The ‘possible cover’ of a boulder burial (Archaeological Inventory of Cork, No.99), looking south. The standing stone (No.242), I am assuming to have become that vanishing glimpse of slab on the ground to the right.
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Looking East towards the rise in the ground. The triangular shape of the quartz accompaniment is very apparent from this angle.
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Looking North at the flat ‘back’ of the monument.
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Looking down, in a southerly direction, at the open side. The supports on either edge are just discernible through the vegetation.
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Looking into the underneath of the cover stone, through the open side, at what is presumably a scatter of field clearance.
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Looking north in line with an axis drawn through the open side of the monument.
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