grange circle alighnment

dublinviking

https://www.google.ie/maps/@52.5123781,-8.5466907,539m/data=!3m1!1e3

What is the bottom left little circle? It seems to be aligned with the ceremonial entrance of the grange circle which is aligned to the sun rise on the first of august, Crom Dubh day.

bawn79

You will have to put a marker on the map to show what you are looking at.

dublinviking

52.510151, -8.551020

aligned with the ceremonial entrance of the grange circle.

dublinviking

here is the google map picture with alignment drawn on it.

http://postimg.org/image/5v6ivk7an/

cfuserkildare

Thats quite interesting dublinviking,

The fella that runs AbartaAudioGuides has done a lot of research around there from what I remember.
Try contacting him, Neil is his name.

dublinviking

Orientation of the ceremonial entrance:



This ceremonial entrance is aligned with the sunrise on the first or second of August, the Day of Crom Dubh, Lughnassa, the day of Perun, Thundering sun Ilios.This following picture gives you the azimuth of the sun path on the first of August 2014. My drawing is not precise so i could be one day off on either side. You can see that the ceremonial entrance looks directly at the sunrise.

bawn79

Doesn't seem to be as clear on the Bing maps http://binged.it/1m2xs7g

If you look at the older maps, it looks as if the field ditches were altered and it may be that "jut" where the red cross is marked on this link http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,562586,640001,6,8 is what you have highlighted.

The circle is also likely to be aligned to the sunset at the Feb / Nov cross quarter.

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/71219/grange_lios_lough_gur.html

Here is a piece I put together on my blog about the circles alignments. http://megalithicarchaeoastronomy.blogspot.ie/p/grange-lios_27.html