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Lisnagun Standing Stone
Date Added: 4th Jul 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Lisnagun Standing Stone submitted by Klingon on 8th Apr 2005. Standing Stone inside a churchyard. Our hands were prickle when touching the stone.
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Log Text: Large, wide, and thin standing stone in the front of a church yard. Public access is easy through the unlocked gates and there's parking around the side. The stone tapers upward towards the north point and is slightly lower on the south point. Very straight on both east and west sides plus along the top, well shaped. The alignment appears to be perfectly north according to my compass (taller peak facing north, alignment along the long axis). The church itself seems old as well.
Burrane Standing Stone
Date Added: 4th Jul 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 4
Burrane Standing Stone submitted by Klingon on 8th Apr 2005. This massive Standing Stone is a granitic rock with a quartzite top.
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Log Text: Beautiful tall stone, very wide and contains much white quartz. The southern side is mostly white quartz and tapers to a point around the stone's mid-height. The northern side rises to a peak and is quite flat with shooting of white quartz running vertically to the tallest tip. In a sheepfield but very close to a gate, there is an electric wire and the gate is by two fields separated by a hedge. The stone is on the right (eastern) side. There is a signpost further back on the road before the turn indicating this is locally called "Mass Rock".
Turnaspidogy stone row
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2024
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Turnaspidogy stone row submitted by GaelicLaird on 12th Oct 2023. Looking south east.
Lough Allua just visible to the right of the middle stone. There's a Crannog situated in Lough Allua visible from the roadside.
Photo taken June 2023.
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Log Text: In the middle of a field, close to the road. There's a gate to the south to cross the fence at which is further from the road. As previously described, the tallest stone has fallen but the other two remain in original positions. White quartz veins running through the two tallest stones. There is a depression in the earth close to the narrow base of the fallen stone that is the same size as that side's base, and is positioned the same distance from the middle stone as the smaller stone is to the middle. The alignment faces south overlooking Lough Allua. It is aligned SW of the lake towards the southern mountains.
Drombohilly Stone Circle
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Kerry)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 1
Drombohilly Stone Circle submitted by kenwilliams on 23rd Oct 2005. Drombohilly is a truly magnificent circle, though a visit is not for the faint hearted. After any spell of rain the terrain here is treacherous, barb-wire, slippery rock filled streams, shoe-sucking bog... Bring a trusted pair of wellingtons.
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Log Text: Very difficult to reach, surrounded by thorny juniper and sharp pines but if you're up for the trail it's absolutely gorgeous. The center has a large white quartz surrounded by smaller stones and one white oyster shell with two embedded pebbles. The portal stones stand tall though one leans at an angle. The axial stone is very squat and nearly hidden by the grass and juniper. All remaining standing stones (9 of 11) aside from the leaning portal stones are in perfect upright original positions. Surrounded by pines on all sides and only 1-2 of the stones are vaguely visible from the teeny tiny road off the 'main' road. Coordinates are exact.
Hill of Tara
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2024
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hill Of Tara submitted by jeffrep on 21st Aug 2008. Mound of the Hostages from a distance. At Hill of Tara in County Meath north of of Dublin.
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Log Text: Plants are growing inside the Mound of the Hostage's passage all over the backstone. Receives morning light from the east. Gorgeous circular earthworks dominate the area.
Lia Fail
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Lia Fail submitted by dodomad on 1st Jun 2014. The Lia Fáil stone on the world famous Hill of Tara was badly vandalised in May 2014. During the incident, two tins of thick gloss paint were poured over the stone.
Image copyright Neil Jackman from Tima Travel Ireland, used with permission.
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Dowth Passage Grave
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2024
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dowth Passage Grave submitted by jeffrep on 11th Aug 2009. South Entrance, Dowth Passage Tomb, County Meath, Ireland.
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Log Text: The mound is accessible by a gate marked with an OPW sign letting you into the sheepfield. There is an information sign past the gate. The mound remains half-excavated which caused the top to be left as a crater. Both passage entrances and modern entrance are locked. The southern passage's entrance stone remains with deep cupmarks carved into both sides. The two cupmarks on the outside face of the stone are quite uniformly round.
Newgrange
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2024
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 5
Newgrange submitted by neolithique02 on 22nd Feb 2014. Newgrange Image copyright: Néolithique02, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Stands tall on the hill commanding an excellent view of the entire region. Can be seen from a far distance due to the reconstructed quartz wall. The three carved stones visible from the outside (the entrance stone, the back kerbstones, and the side kerbstone) are all in excellent condition with clear and striking carvings.
Knowth Timber Circle
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2024
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 5
Knowth Timber Circle submitted by siunni9 on 4th Sep 2006. This is the Knowth Timber Circle. These poles were positioned where the remains of the original ones once stood. We captured this image on October 16th, 2005.
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Log Text: Timber circle is symmetrical and aligned to face either towards or away from the main Knowth mound. Large enough for a couple people to stand within.
Knowth
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2024
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Knowth submitted by neolithique02 on 22nd Feb 2014. Knowth (Newgrange) Image copyright: Néolithique02, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Most kerbstones are visible but some are roped off preventing close inspection. The eastern entrance is blocked by a metal staircase and the eastern entrance stone and standing stone is partially obscured by this. Spectacular group of satellite mounds with their own kerbs and chambers.
Gortanimill
Date Added: 1st Jul 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Gortanimill submitted by chaika on 7th Jun 2016. Gortanimill stone circle stands beside road. Easy access through gate. View looking up to circle from gate. Fall 2015.
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Log Text: Beautiful site overlooking a great view. The site is very close to the road and right by a gate that can be parked at and opened easily (this gate is not the one at the junction but a little further up the single-car road). The stone circle is in a sheep field but go slow and they'll leave you be. The quartz stone in the middle is now in two pieces but the bottom remains rooted in place. A nice big circle with many of its stones still in their original upright position.