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Photo Pages: Cregg - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Northern Ireland
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Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Monday, 14 October 2002 Page Views: 2286
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 Site Name: Cregg Country: Northern Ireland Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Townland (Nearest Village): Claudy
Map Ref: C535078
Discoverer Map Number: D7
Latitude: 54.914977N Longitude: 7.16652W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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Approached by a leafy lane, this standing stone (100 metres N of the road to Derry City) is a magnificent quartz boulder some 1.8 metres high, beautifully patterned by crevices, natural straining and lichens.
~ 5.6 km ESE in Clagan, , 400 metres SE of Clagan Bridge, are 3 prominent standing-stones, which were overturned by treasure-seekers in 1770. Two have been re-erected (one askew) but the third and largest (3.6 metres long) remains prostrate. The field they are in is littered with white quartzite pebbles, and the site commands wide views.
~ 14.8 km WSW of the Cregg stone, in county Tyrone, is a pair of standing-stones at Sandville (C 388048),to the S of a by-road and less than 400metres NNW of Milltown Burndennet. One is 2.1metres high and pointed, while the other is a little lower and has a grooved flat top. These stones, only75 cms apart on either side of a boundary fence, seem more likely to represent male and female, like other pairs in Ireland (notably Boherboy), than to be the portals of a vanished tomb. In this case it is likely than heifers and cows were driven between them, one by one, to ensure their fertility.
Note: Photo © Anthony Weir
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 Creggandevesky submitted by LizH
Showing the size of the court (though this photograph diminishes it)
 Creggandevesky submitted by LizH
This shows the length of the cairn (I am sure the stones don't look so black when it is not pouring with rain - or is it always pouring?)
 Creggandevesky submitted by LizH
A splendid court tomb (on a very dull day). It is both very long and the court is very wide.
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