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'Irish Genius' Megalithic Ireland huge resource for download

FIELD GUIDE TO
MEGALITHIC IRELAND

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A Field Guide to Megalithic Ireland
by Anthony Weir
Now hugely expanded, making this the most comprehensive illustrated guide to megalithic Ireland ever published in any medium. Hundreds of pages of text and many thousands of images of prehistoric tombs, stone circles, standing-stones, sweathouses, cross-pillars, cross-slabs, ogam stones, bullauns and phallic pillars PLUS megaliths in France (beyond Brittany) and mediaeval exhibitionist carvings.

This resource is the result of almost 50 years of research in the field by Anthony Weir, the author of Early Ireland, a Field Guidei>,.

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Our best-selling product. Newly updated version for 2020

Previous updates: Now greatly expanded, making this the most comprehensive illustrated guide to megalithic Ireland ever published in any medium. Packed with over 700 pages of pages of text and many thousands of images of prehistoric tombs, stone circles, standing-stones, sweathouses, cross-pillars, cross-slabs, ogam stones, bullauns and phallic pillars it also includes sections on megaliths in France (beyond Brittany) and medieval grotesque/exhibitionist carvings.

2010 update: Recent additions include more dolmens in France and more sites in the Burren (Clare), Limerick and Monaghan, Antrim, Mayo an Tipperary.

2008 update: New sites listed and described, and other sites updated in every Irish county.
. Distribution maps.
. Search facility.
. Sections on "sheela-na-gigs" and Irish carved crosses
. Sections on souterrains, cashels and crannogs
. Now over 400 MB of images and text!

Anthony writes: The core of this resource is the alphabetical county-by-county gazetteer of Irish megaliths from that book, enveloped by pages which put the types of monument into context. Most Irish photo-archaeological sites concentrate on the passage-tombs of counties Meath and Sligo, and give no idea of the variety of Irish field monuments all over the island, nor of their sculptural beauty and the beauty of their locations.

At least half the pleasure of discovering Ireland's megaliths is in leaving the banalised tourist routes for a quieter, more hidden Ireland away from the coasts and the famous passage-tombs & monastic cites. Even around brash Dublin - and in the centre of Belfast - fine megaliths are to be found.

This resource is a useful and compact introduction to some of the hundreds of fine stone monuments in Ireland.

It also includes a section on some of the thousands of megaliths to be found in France to the east, north and south of well-trodden Brittany. These French pages are the by-product of travel for field-research into the origins of the Irish Sheela-na-gigs on Romanesque churches, pursued in the late nineteen-seventies and early eighties.

Anthony is also an accomplished poet, see his other publications on sale at Amazon.co.uk

He is co-author of Images of Lust: sexual carvings in medieval churches (1986, 1994, 1999).
He has also published articles in Archaeology Ireland, The County Louth Archaeological Journal, Irish Midland Studies, Mercian Mysteries, On the Edge, and The Ley Hunter.
Before publishing his Field Guide he published poetry and translations with Blackstaff Press, Belfast, and also wrote for Fortnight political magazine, and the Newsletter of Survival International.

See also Stone Circles Tour by Tom Bullock

This page on Megalithic Ireland last edited on Monday, 13-Dec-2021 21:28:04 UTC