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Show Jumping at Neolithic Burial Mound

Submitted by vicky on Thursday, 05 February 2004  Page Views: 1415

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A new cross country course for horse riders has been built around an ancient site in Ireland. The course is situated at Ballygraffan in Strangford Conservation Area in the picturesque, undulating drumlin country between Comber and Killinchy. The course will accomodate two classes, a Novice and an Intermediate, both of which will perform their showjumping around a Neolithic burial mound and alongside an ancient mill.

For the past four months, the course has been the site of intense activity as course-builders and designers have worked at a feverish pace to put together the first fences on a completely new cross-country course which will run on April 24.

The course weaves through ten fields, many of which are bound on all sides by ditches. Initially, many ditches had to be culverted to increase access and prevent the course becoming a series of ditches and trakehners.

Luckily, a source of stone was discovered in one of the crosscountry fields and it supplied eighty tonnes of stone for culverting, lane-building and the construction by local stonemasons of a decorative dry-stone bridge which will be incorporated into the course.

Also uncovered was an eighteen ton boulder which now occupies a prominent position on the course and has become a local landmark.

Source: Farming Life 04/02/2004



Note: Does anyone have any information about this burial chamber?
Contributor Bio for vicky: Ex Megalithic Portal Editor, Co-author of 'Rock Around the Peak - Megalithic Monuments of the Peak District' and... More

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