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Castleruddery : Stone Pair

CountyWicklow
Grid RefS 917 945
Longitude6° 38' 3.05" W
Latitude52° 59' 36.31" N
Nearest TownDonard (3.5 Km)
OS Sheet55
UTM zone29U
UTM x658782.83996634
UTM y5874156.8953379
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 11th December 2005

I am not 100% sure about these two stones, but there are several things about them that could indicate some antiquity. Firstly, why haven't they been moved? They are sat right in a natural gateway between two fields, so you would think someone would have moved them. Secondly they are set in such a way that their alignment points at a good V-shape in the mountains on the southwest horizon.

They are also at one end of a 70m long, 5m wide, 3m deep trench, which apparently is a medieaval fish pond, but I'm not so sure about that. It's very odd that someone would build such a pond so that it is on a direct line between Castleruddery stone circle and the nearby cairn by coincidence. Even if it was later used as a fish pond, could it be the remnants of a cursus?

The two stones are both 1.5m tall andegg-shaped with the pointy end upmost.

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