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Submitted by frogcottage42 on Sunday, 25 April 2010  Page Views: 7482

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Grousemount circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Kerry Type: Stone Circle

Map Ref: W09837020
Discovery Map Number: D79
Latitude: 51.877242N  Longitude: 9.310066W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 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
0No data.
 2 Accuracy:
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
0no data
 5

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Grousemount circle
Grousemount circle submitted by frogcottage42 : Looking from the South. The notched stone in the foreground aligns to the setting midwinter sun in the cleft between two nearby hills (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient site in Kerry. This is not really a stone circle. There are four stones arranged in a rectangle with the NE/SW pair forming an alignment with the midwinter sunset. There is a very deliberate notch in the top of the SW stone and this when viewed over the NE stone points to a visual overlap of a ridge and a summit behind which the midwinter sun descends.

The SE stone has a large notch out of it's SW side which possibly aligns with a sloping part of a ridge to the SE following the path of moonrise at it's 18 year maximum ( there is a similar alignment at the circle in Dromagorteen) The NW stone is almost invisible below the grass and only stands .3m high.
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Grousemount circle
Grousemount circle submitted by frogcottage42 : This shows the very obvious notch in the SE stone which when viewed from the NW may align with the rising moon at it's 18 year maximum similar to the alignment found at Dromagorteen (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grousemount circle
Grousemount circle submitted by frogcottage42 : Looking over the notch from the NE. Though not apparent in the photo the slight depression on the skyline above the notch is actually the peak of another hill just visible over the summit of the nearer one (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Grousemount by Anonymous on Tuesday, 10 January 2006
Looking for information on the Sweeney family that once lived in Grousemount. My father n law just passed away and I was looking at pictures of the place his mother and father grew up.
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    Re: Grousemount by Anonymous on Tuesday, 10 January 2006
    Sorry I am not anonymous, my name is Kate Sweeney. This is my married name. My maiden name is Katherine (kate) Dunn, I would love to hear from anyone who has knowledge of the place and the people around the area. My E-mail is [email protected].
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