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<< Other Photo Pages >> Achill-henge - Modern Stone Circle etc in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Mayo

Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 25 October 2013  Page Views: 4711

Modern SitesSite Name: Achill-henge Alternative Name: Achillhenge
Country: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 6.975 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Mayo Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
 Nearest Village: Keel
Latitude: 53.986000N  Longitude: 10.096W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Achill-henge submitted by Flickr : Achill-Henge I went to see Achill-henge today before it is demolished, I can understand why it has to go but personally I think it's a shame, would love to see it tidied up and promoted as a tourist attraction for Achill. The High Court ruled at the end of July that the Stonehenge-like structure built without planning permission by Joe McNamara last November must be demolished. Image copyright: l... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Modern Stone Circle / Monolith in Co. Mayo.
A concrete "Stonehenge" type construction built in November 2011 by developer Joe McNamara as "a place of reflection."

In July 2012 a court decision determined the structure had been built illegally and the site should be returned to its original state. It is apparently still standing as of October 2013, and being used as for a photo art installation.

Note: British researcher pitches for Achill-henge
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F6305 : A minor road to Keel by John Lucas
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F6205 : Achill Henge by Enda O Flaherty
by Enda O Flaherty
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F6205 : Achill Henge by N Chadwick
by N Chadwick
©2022(licence)
F6205 : Achill Henge by N Chadwick
by N Chadwick
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F6205 : Achill Henge by N Chadwick
by N Chadwick
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Re: Achill-henge by bat400 on Friday, 25 October 2013
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London-based researcher Richard Brock has issued a plea to halt the planned destruction of the controversial Achill-henge on the grounds of its potential as a site for experimental archaeological research.

As previously reported in The Mayo News, Joe McNamara, the man behind the Stonehenge replica, has been ordered to remove it. On July 26, An Bord Pleanála (ABP) ruled that the structure, which sits on a hilltop overlooking the villages of Pollagh and Keel, was not exempted development. The High Court subsequently lifted its stay on an earlier demolition order, which was in place until the ABP made its decision.
However, Richard Brock, a classically-trained musician and computer scientist with a long interest in the archaeology of Stonehenge, is convinced that the acoustic properties of the Achill structure could yield valuable clues to musical archaeologists, and he is appealing for its retention.

Having carried out preliminary tests on site in recent days, he is satisfied that echoes of sounds made in the centre of the mass-concrete circle create a dome of sound in much the same manner as the original Stonehenge. Brock told The Mayo News that the leading researchers in the field, Bruno Fazenda of Salford University and Rupert Till of Huddersfield University have created approximations of the sound of drumming, clapping and using reed flutes in Stonehenge either by using computer modelling or by travelling to a concrete replica of Stonehenge in Maryhill, Washington, in the US, as the Stonehenge circle is incomplete.

Bruno Fazenda, who is based at the Acoustics Research Centre of the Universaty of Salford’s School of Computing, Science and Engineering, has expressed an interest in visiting Achill-henge to carry out a scientific study of the site’s acoustics as part of his research.
“Achill-henge is much easier to access for European researchers, is better constructed than the Maryhill version and could become a key site in the growing field of archaeoacoustics,” Brock said.

Archaeoacoustics is a branch of music archaeology, which has moved on from trying to recreate the sound of ancient instruments to trying to understand how they sounded in their original contexts, and whether the ancient monuments could have been designed with musical effects in mind. “For example,” Brock said, “the echoes in Stonehenge create an impulse response that generates a reverberation tail of 47Hz – essentially a low drone that builds as rhythms interact with their own echo, creating the characteristic dome of sound, using the structure as a kind of amplifier” he added. Much of this research is coordinated through the International Study Group on Music Archaeology (ISGMA), based at the Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut in Berlin.
Brock is convinced that Achill-henge could also reveal some of the secrets of the early Irish musical instrument heritage, which goes back 4,000 years, almost to the period of the existing stone circle at Stonehenge. Commenting on the replica’s now-shaky future, Brock said that Mayo County Council should delay the demolition of Achill-henge until its potential contribution to scientific archaeoacoustic research can be fully explored. “Preferably, though, it should be retained, as this is a rapidly expanding field regularly yielding exciting discoveries,” he added.


Thanks to coldrum. For more, see http://www.mayonews.ie/
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