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Rock ArtSite Name: Feaghna Alternative Name: Rolls of ButterCountry: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Kerry Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kenmare Nearest Village: Glengarriff
Map Ref: V966641
Discovery Map Number: D85
Latitude: 51.820144N Longitude: 9.500287W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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The larger ones carry oval stones latterly known as ‘butterlumps’ . These are turned in their basins in the final stages of the Easter ‘pattern’ or ‘turas’ which includes a well to the E of the church, and part of the church wall. The patrún or pattern is evidently of extreme antiquity – as indeed are most in Ireland – going back at least 2000 years. In the middle of the boulder a cylindrical stone of phallic shape stands in a circular holed stone.
About 50 m E of the bullaun, on the other side of the road, is a boulder with a flat slab on top, upon which a cross was erected in the late nineteen-sixties: Ireland is still – ineptly - being Christianised!
~ 9 kms WNW is Dromroe stone circle.
~ 12 km SSE in county Cork are Mill Little stone circle and boulder-burials.
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