Castleruddery

Date Added: 28th Dec 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Wicklow)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4

Log Text: This was one of my favourite megalithic sites out of the huge number we visited in our trip of a lifetime spontaneous journey, mostly guided by the Glovebox Guide to Ancient Britain!!$7 delivered to Australia.. best money ever spent!!!! :D This Stone Circle looked less than promising, given the view of the town and the proximity to the road, but the cupping on the stones, the cover of Hawthorn Trees, and the amazing feel of the stones kept me there fluting for ages, and it is the place I often think back to.. and, despite Hawthorn's being impossible to access due to their weed status south of us, I am intent of growing my own, for both Medicine and to add extra power to my own young stone circle (which I refuse to call a folly!)

Loughcrew Cairn T

Date Added: 28th Dec 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2

Log Text: The first place we stayed in Ireland was an astonishingly rich-in-character old home in Oldcastle, County Meath, and our very kind B&B host told us about Loughcrew Cairns, hearing that we preferred less tourist-saturated megalithic sites. We didn't ever make it to Newgrange, which looked magnificent, but the Hag's Cairn was absolutely perfect as far as we were concerned. I love the Hag's Chair, and sat upon it, left offerings and pondered it, and wandered around Cairn T's various sites of interest, being blessed beyond hope to have been able to climb into the chamber, very briefly, but for long enough to sight the various petroglyphs and feel the energy within..

Loughcrew Cairn T

Date Added: 28th Dec 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes

Log Text: September 2018 Heard about it from very kind B&B host and made our way to it. Met really nice fellow travellers up on the Hag's Mountain from over the globe. Loved the Hag's Chair and the Cairn T, especially the petroglyphs on the Equinox Stone inside the chamber. Amazing views from up there, too.

Avebury

Date Added: 28th Dec 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: I loved Avebury. When we visited there were professional research photographers focused on a couple of the huge megaliths in the middle of the main area that people were walking, so the ambience was a bit lessened due to that, but we went around to the fewer stones of a more remote corner of the complex and had a lovely time focusing on them, getting to know them, playing flute to them, all without other 2-leggeds interrupting. :D It is also nice and close to West Kennet long barrow, which was one of my favourite places to flute and just Be.

Holywell Bay

Date Added: 28th Dec 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Oct 2018. My rating: Access 3

Log Text: We were not able to find it until we saw 'locals' heading straight to it, but by then the tide had made it inaccessible. Understandably, the locals are loathe to assist tourists, heading down in anticipation, find this place.. Things that are felt to be sacred need to be respected, but it was a shame that we got so near, yet so far :) We still enjoyed the area, though, and even though Cornwall disappointed in terms of Tintagel and Merlin's Cave being 'closed' (:-o) and us not finding this actual cave, this region offered lots of spectacular sites the likes of which this little black duck had never seen before.. so all good! :D