They are the partisans of Firbolgs or Fomorians, the amateur archaeologists, the proponents of ley lines, the diviners and the dowsers, all with the best of intentions.

(1979).Drombeg (“the small ridge”) commands a glorious location at the head of a long green valley, presiding over a view that gently swoops down to the Atlantic 1.6 km (1 mi) away.

The large recumbent stone is darker than the other stones in the circle, and legend indicates it might have been a sacrificial altar. Hotels near Drombeg Stone Circle: (2.78 mi) Lis-Ardagh Lodge (4.26 mi) The Castle Townshend (3.53 mi) deBarra Lodge (1.93 mi) Shearwater Country House B&B (7.42 mi) Grove House and Courtyard Cottages; View all hotels near Drombeg Stone Circle on Tripadvisor and what looks like an axe -carving, on it's upper surface.Axial stones are found at thirty of the stone circles in the Cork and Kerry area. Before it was excavated by Professor Edward Fahy in 1957, it was known locally to the locals as the Druid’s Altar.

The Drombeg Stone Circle is a little over an hour from Cork, Ireland by car. It's solemn symmetry invites the imagination to run wild - what mysterious rites were once perform here? The cremate bones had been raked up and placed in an already broken pot, its base missing, wrapped round with thick cloth. People hear it. The circle consists of seventeen pillar stones that are graded from the two large portal stones, each 2 metres high, at the north-east towards the axial stone. Drombeg is probably Irelands This dedicatory offering, perhaps a sacrifice, was taken to a shallow pit near the middle of the ring where it was buried…These three high-resolution photographs were made with a large-format view camera in 1979. In 1959 Fahy wrote: Click the photo, and then click the button at the right of its Zoomify toolbar to see it full-screen.Just 40 m (130 ft) to the west sits the proof that Drombeg continued to be used into the late Iron Age, perhaps to house and feed celebrants arriving to commemorate an echo of the site’s original ritual.Experiments conduced at the site by Fahy when he excavated the Professor Michael O’Kelly took such experimentation a bit further six years earlier while excavating a The Drombeg Stone Circle, or as it is locally known as the Druid's Altar, is located on the edge of a rocky terrace overlooking the sea about a kilometre away, in Glandore County Cork. pillar stones that are graded from the two large portal stones, each Not so much. Drombeg Stone Circle, Co. Cork . Click if you have 3D (red/cyan) glasses.Fahy removed the graveled pavement within the circle, placed there by the original builders, who may have been from the Bronze or the early Iron Age.Conceiving a dramatic tableau from the archaeological finds uncovered by Fahy in 1958, Aubrey Burl constructed this narrative for the Drombeg site in his 1995 guidebook: Perhaps the elaborate rock art that was left for us to ponder on the passages of the Stone Age tombs such as Without a time machine that might allow us to observe the rituals of Drombeg’s builders, we have to admit that anything is possible, from the sublime to the less so. Its organically sculpted, honey-colored stones form a circle that seems an unlikely candidate to be associated with the dying victims of human sacrifice or the blood-chilling wail of the banshee announcing the newly dead. this road. Originally 17 massive stones, it is now composed of 13 stones. Situated: From Clonakilty take the N71 west She ‘saw’ a priest in blue and saffron robes standing at the altar of the recumbent about to kill his human offering… Drombeg was cursed. The road is signposted, but the signs can be difficult to see. “Nearby there had been a pyre on which the body of an adolescent had been consumed. This is a circle of 17 standing stones which on excavation showed that there had been an urn burial in the centre.

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