tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87593842024-02-28T16:56:32.718+00:00Irish Megaliths WeblogA recently-revived weBlog for visitors to the www.irishmegaliths.org.uk website - which is a wonderfully-illustrated field-guide and gazetteer to many of the hundreds of prehistoric tombs, stone circles, standing-stones, forts and other ancient Irish stone erections.
The first two comments posted are about American rather than Irish SWEATHOUSES.Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8759384.post-12843558150654779622015-07-16T20:08:00.001+01:002015-07-16T20:08:10.527+01:00Bones of 5,000-year-old Stone Age child and adult found in Irish cave<a href="http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/Bones-of-5000-year-old-Stone-Age-child-and-adult-found-in-Irish-cave.html">http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/Bones-of-5000-year-old-Stone-Age-child-and-adult-found-in-Irish-cave.html</a><br />
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<br />Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8759384.post-7685157320836501532013-09-14T12:28:00.000+01:002013-09-14T12:28:02.618+01:00GLANRASTEL petroglyphs<div class="wmentrybox">
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from Neil Johnston at LAURAGH, County KERRY on 13.09.2013 </div>
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Re: Petroglyphs at Tinure, county Louth.</div>
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Hi - nice stuff but there is another rockface - probably neolithic
markings - description below. </div>
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If you want to have a look, go here -<b>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu89EnSyeQU</b><br />
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Here is a description of the rock scribings from the Archaeological Inventory of Kerry.<br />
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<b>Glanrastel Townland:</b><br />
In rough hill pasture, on the SE-facing slope of Cummeenbaun Mountain. A<br />
large upright slab (c. 8m x c. 5m x c. 1m) leans against a large roughly<br />
cuboid-shaped boulder (L c. 12m E-W; Wth c. 4m N-S; H c. 3m) forming a<br />
shelter that can be entered from either the E or W sides. The relatively<br />
smooth vertical N face of the boulder is inscribed with clusters of<br />
straight lines, which extend from 0.3 to 2.2m above ground level and cover<br />
an area 5.8m x 1.9m. Most of the inscribed lines (L 0.04-0.15m) are<br />
vertical and are frequently grouped by horizontal or diagonal lines scored<br />
across them. The inscriptions are too numerous to count and appear to have<br />
been created with V-shaped tools to depths of 1-4mm. This is known locally<br />
as 'Pluais na Scríob' (the cave of the inscribing). (Grant 1999, 18-21)</div>
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Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8759384.post-54347899334082546432013-07-26T12:39:00.001+01:002013-07-28T10:13:51.481+01:00DID IRISH MONKS REACH NORTH AMERICA ?<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Ric<span style="font-size: large;">hard</span> Dupuis in Montréal, Canada, has sent me photos and a video of a granite boulder in the Parc des Rapides, close to Montréal and the St Lawrence river, which is engraved with a well-executed interlaced-quatrefoil design:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.irishmegaliths.org.uk/pillarstones3.htm"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTn7xdA63VYJpktytkOpGofU2zGuECeet5OxG27apHm24mvXn5qm3_CiVt631V2uPzcLgiJ8O5lOWasgPOzTxsyoM-vp90hjetQ6hyphenhyphenVpjvsuGW5dh0IwpOz7MXFYPjjxHYuy5Nmw/s400/Quatrefoil-carved_Boulder_LaSalle_Quebec_Canada.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Click on the photo above <br />to read my essay on this very interesting find.</b></i></span><br />
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<br />Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8759384.post-26747323384685264332008-02-27T11:59:00.002+00:002008-02-27T12:02:53.299+00:00Ancient scratchings or recent plough-marks ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGNnM-zFURTd4oPRzIFrxbQM_nsag767o5RPxTaI5BUeDa-TzWiAIAMXKj7BICD_dEP68J_XjnTTzk7yrMuN-lYpSikt3xLFGzCvfsgN5KCKoYkmrUiuByWMB536s-9LHun7EvPQ/s1600-h/ardganty_stone.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGNnM-zFURTd4oPRzIFrxbQM_nsag767o5RPxTaI5BUeDa-TzWiAIAMXKj7BICD_dEP68J_XjnTTzk7yrMuN-lYpSikt3xLFGzCvfsgN5KCKoYkmrUiuByWMB536s-9LHun7EvPQ/s320/ardganty_stone.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171628976855638658" /></a><br /><br />This boulder is on the edge of a field at Ardganty (Longford).<br />Photo by Gavin Berkenheger.Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8759384.post-1098022634144934932004-10-17T15:13:00.000+01:002004-10-19T16:32:37.940+01:00ANY COMMENTS ON IRISH SWEATHOUSES ?<em>(see the page </em><a href="http://www.irishmegaliths.org.uk/sweathouses.htm"><em>www.irishmegaliths.org.uk/sweathouses.htm</em></a><em>)</em>
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