County Down, Thursday 16th June, 2022…
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The information board
cannot be relied upon to furnish
accurate information
but they can offer, if not a landing strip
then at least, a spring board on to better things.
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This will not be the first souterrain
we have explored…
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But it turns out
to be one of the best yet!…
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County Down, Thursday, 16th June, 2022…
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Certainly, such huge stones
look difficult to move
from place to place…
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County Down, Thursday, 16th June, 2022…
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For the first time
since our first site
a couple of days ago
there are people!
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And some kind of fairy-thorn
within the circle!
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This is unusual.
Resonant circles tend to repel plant life.
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Are the two connected?
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Apart from the offerings?
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County Down, Thursday, 16th June, 2022…
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We came across a number of green
wyrm-holes in Cornwall
and they often spat us out
in wondrous locations…
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The same magic appears
to hold sway here too!
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Loch Lethglas was half-green
from the ground
to the crown of his head…
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County Down, Thursday, June 16th, 2022…
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Such is the size and nature of these structures
that the photographers art can seldom do them justice.
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The front end of the enclosure is massive
and since the re-encroachment of nature
it now just looks like a huge wall of trees.
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Artistic impression of the mound settlement in the ninth century
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Despite historical insistence that such
features were defensive
it is far more likely that they were symbolic.
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Folklore links wild oxen with the site,
and it may well be that its design
takes its inspiration from the hoof of an ox.
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Curiously, from above,
the site looks like nothing less
than a single eye…
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County Fermanagh, Wednesday 15th June, 2022…
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With these ‘fellas’ as a prelude
we could be forgiven
for thinking the day was to end with a bang.
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But what we got was a sort of summation.
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Drumskinney has the look
and feel of a show circle
but it does confirm many of the impressions
gained from our morning sojourn at Little-Big Moor…
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County Fermanagh, Wednesday, June 15th, 2022…
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Despite the plaited hair
this side of the ‘Janet and John’ stone
is now regarded as a masculine figure.
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Whilst this is the feminine.
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The hair of the two figures is entwined,
and it may be that the ‘belts’ of both figures
is actually a binding.
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In the oldest part of the Battle of Moytura,
the ‘Good-God’ of the Crafty Folk, who is also a giant,
takes the Morrigan on his back into battle…
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County Tyrone, Wednesday, June 18, 2022…
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Another court-cairn…
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‘Light & Dark’
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Outback of ‘ORC’
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‘Wild-Woman’
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‘Bird-Lady’
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‘Womb-Woman’
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‘Birthday-Girl’
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County Tyrone, Wednesday, June 18, 2022…
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Barbrook One* on Big Moor
in Derbyshire, England, follows a similar pattern.
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But there, the cairn is associated with only one circle.
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And the cairn has a different structure.
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The stones heaped
in a mound
rather than a hub.
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Though there are cairns
like that on Little-Big Moor too…
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