Rooves Beg : Stone Row or Alignment

CountyCork
Grid RefW 451 702
Longitude8° 47' 50.5" W
Latitude51° 52' 53.1" N
ITM east480366
ITM north584435
Nearest TownCrookstown (5.1 Km)
OS Sheet80
UTM zone29U
UTM x449041
UTM y5761192
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 13th April 2003

This is one of those sites where you see a huge stone standing up proud of the field boundary and get excited, then when you look over the wall you see one standing stone and four fallen ones.

This would have been such a wonderful alignment . The five stones cover a length of 10m and the sole upright one is 2m tall - the other stones would have been of similar height.

I just want to keep writing that this would have been a wondeful row. I think this site made me quite sad.

Alignments or stone rows are groups of standing stones set in straight line. They can occur in any size group from two (usually refered to as a stone pair - see Boherboy (County Dublin)) to ten or more, although anything over four is exceptional (see Castlelanaght (County Cork)).

The function of these is a bit of a mystery, although many do seem to have significant astrological or geographical properties.

The stones making stone pairs often appear to be totally different in shape from each other, often hinting at a male and female partnership.

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This is an explanation of (and a bit of a disclaimer for) the coordinates I provide.

Where a GPS figure is given this is the master for all other coordinates. According to my Garmin these are quite accurate.

Where there is no GPS figure the 6 figure grid reference is master for the others. This may not be very accurate as it could have come from the OS maps and could have been read by eye. Consequently, all other cordinates are going to have inaccuracies.

The calculation of Longitude and Latitude uses an algorithm that is not 100% accurate. The long/lat figures are used as a basis for calculating the UTM & ITM coordinates. Consequently, UTM & ITM coordinates are slightly out.

UTM is a global coordinate system - Universal Transverse Mercator - that is at the core of the GPS system.

ITM is the new coordinate system - Irish Transverse Mercator - that is more accurate and more GPS friendly than the Irish Grid Reference system. This will be used on the next generation of Irish OS maps.

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