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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ballynahatty Alternative Name: The Giant's RingCountry: Ireland (Northern)
NOTE: This site is 11.017 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Down Type: Henge
Nearest Town: Belfast Nearest Village: Ballynahatty
Map Ref: J32726770
Discoverer Map Number: D15
Latitude: 54.540248N Longitude: 5.950117W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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Stone Free visited on 13th Jul 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
macd visited There's so much more to Ballynahatty than the henge and megalith - spectacular as they are!
Have a look at
http://www.laganvalleylearning.co.uk/archive/Giants_Ring/teachers/Giants%20Ring.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273292677_A_Neolithic_ceremonial_timber_complex_at_Ballynahatty_Co_Down
http://lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume9/volume9-1.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35179269
There are loads more articles available online.
Recent dry spells have shown up even more exciting discoveries in the vicinity of the Giant's Ring.
DrewParsons have visited here
At least three of the 5 irregularly-spaced gaps in the henge are intentional, and possibly original. The site seems to be one of those “anomalous” monuments erected by the late-Neolithic “Beaker People” of N Britain who were responsible also for the large free-standing stone circles at Ballynoe and Newgrange, as well as the stone circle backed by a henge at Lough Gur. E of the centre of the enclosure is a small, derivative passage-tomb whose vestigial passage faces W. Excavations beyond the bank yielded evidence of more Neolithic activity.
See below for photos from the 2015 eclipse taken from Ballynahatty, The Giant’s Ring
Note: Out Now: Ballynahatty - Excavations in a Neolithic Monumental Landscape
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