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A few Megaliths from last weekend. 800PX PHOTO THREAD!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Judge


    Found this one while rummaging through my archives - Glaskenny Cromlech:

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    This portal tomb can be found in a field near the Knockree youth hostel in the Glencree valley. A large new house is being built in the field - the tape around the monument seems to be there to keep the builders away!


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


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    Belderrig, Co.Mayo. Recent cuttings in the bog from this year have revealed more pre-bog walls related to the Ceide Fields system.You can see the top of the wall and the marks on it from the cutting.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


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    Loughcrew at Night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Yeah, bigger one of the Loughcrew shot Grimes!

    Disappoining the amount of light pollution up there though, wouldn't have thought there'd be that much :(


    Something similar I took a long time ago

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Samhain surise at Tara, magical stuff!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Another bit of a bump for a couple of old-ish pictures from Carrowkeel and Carrowmore

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭bogman


    Newgrove wedge tomb, Co Clare
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    Tyredagh standing stone, Co Clare

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭rccaulfield


    Great stuff bogman! I was in Kenmare last week so got to see these 2 beauties,

    the Kenmare stone circle(about 3 thousand years old if memory serves)-

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    and its model in the heritage centre-

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    and the Uragh NE stone circle-this place blew me away! 5 thousandish years old if memory serves and the setting is unreal!

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    Heres some pics from Fourknocks passage grave in meath-i was there last winter-

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    want to see lough boora next!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


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    Haroldstown dolmen County carlow.

    This one is, unlike far too many others, self supporting in which I mean concrete hasnt been added to hold up the support. Its remarkably cosy inside and was actually used to house a family in the 19th century. I havent found out what year but may have been connected to the famine or land war

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


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    Ogham stone bally ferriter Co. Kerry
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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    This isnt the prettiest. Its a collapsed passage tomb. Its large about ten feet across by 20 long.

    You can see Kylemore abbey in the background.

    You walk down the road, past a lime kiln and its on a hill to your left (the limestone keeps the hill green even in winter). There's also an interesting early early christian graveyard on the lower part of the hill, no marked graves just stones and unusual because the graves lie north/south.

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    Amazing stuff. I could look at them again and again :D


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    Not as adventurous a journey as any of Bogman's or others but here are a few pics of a very overgrown and not much visited wedge tomb near Aughrim in county Wicklow.
    Hopefully, you can see how the tomb entrance was oriented towards the winter sunset in the third photo.
    The photos don't really give a sense of just how massive the stones are.
    The entrance is interesting, I think, in the fact that it is constructed from one granite boulder which has been split in two and parted (second picture).
    There are supposed to be three stones nearby, which have rock art on them - but we had no luck in locating any of them, sadly.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Yay, this thread lives again! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Here's a few from the Burren in Cavan from a few months ago. Lovely place. Although there's so many loose, massive stones there that it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between man-made megaliths and natural forming rock.

    Huge collapsed tomb
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    Some worn, decorated stones nearby
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    This was absolutely massive. Known as the sheep shed apparently
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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Yeah there's a few signs on the main trail pointing off in the direction of some of the sites. Some of them could be a bit vague and because the forest is fairly wild with not much of a pathway through it, I found myself lost a few times :D

    As far as I can remember there was a few Coillte signs on the way in, and when I was there there was massive amounts of felled trees in one particular area. So yeah, I suppose Coillte manage parts of the forest.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    How did the solstice turn out bogman?

    I'm doing a photobook on Loughcrew at the minute for college. I'll throw up a few of the pics here as I go along.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Well, the two bloody hills!

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    Lovely alignment with cairn T from this one.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    I'm still working my way through the loughcrew pics, so more to come soon. But in the meantime here's a wedge tomb we found in Galway a few weeks back.

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    Possible solar alignment?
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    We didn't get too much of a look at it, as there was a mean 'aul looking bull stalking us and we were cowards :D

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    Optimistically hoping for a break in the rain, headed up into the Wicklow mountains today. It was too wet to take the camera out for any length of time.
    This is Boleycarrigeen stone circle, on the crest above the Glen of Imaal
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    Within a stone's throw is this fantastic rath
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    with impregnable ramparts and ditches. I should know,I fell into one and had a heck of a job getting out.
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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    This Ogham stone within Boleycarrigeen rath has been dated to between 400 - 500 AD and the Ogham has been translated to read as 'VOTI'.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    Brilliant thread, didn't know about it. Ghostintheruins, you're so good at taking these shots, I had a notion all stone shots had to be boring but you've inspired me, and although my local spots of interests are not as glamourous as the wedge tombs, I'll give it a shot (pun intended) and will post here :).
    In the meantime, here's an ogham stone, there are a few used in the structure of Knockboy Church here in Co Waterford, one is just displayed inside.
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    2 more ogham stones in Knockboy church by mountainsandheather, on Flickr


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Thanks Mountainsandh, I'm glad someone likes them!

    I'm glad you bumped the thread as well, I keep forgetting to throw some pics into it,

    A couple more from Loughcrew, hopefully I didn't put these up already.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    And a small shot from Dowth while I'm at it :D

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


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  • Registered Users Posts: 316 ✭✭Simon.d


    Great thread! Took an aerial shot of this site close to my house earlier today..


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    That's so cool ! saw some vids on Youtube of people who use the rig and kite, if it didn't sound so complicated I'd love to try it.
    Here's another one of Knockboy Ogham stones.
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    Ogham stone at Knockboy church by mountainsandheather, on Flickr


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    Yet again not a megalith but Rathgall, Co.Wicklow is a heck of a ringfort.
    It was excavated by Barry Raftery around 1970 (see here for more)
    The central enclosure is thought to be medieval - the main enclosure (far too extensive to photograph) is Bronze Age.
    It must have taken decades to build.
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    This picture shows a chamber within the wall of the central enclosure.
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