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.
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...”
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 ;)
A great picture of Drombeg from the sky.
In connection with the fieldnotes that I wrote a year ago, this is a feature about access improvements to this site. It appears on the Heritage Journal and is reproduced here with Heritage Action’s kind permission.