This is easy to get to and well worth the small effort involved. It is not as pretty as the NE circle but it much larger at 15m diameter.
Most of the stones are missing from the south side but it is still impressive none the less. The stones are all around 1.3m - 1.5m tall.
It is scandalously unprotected from the cattle in the field - I wish people would just take the time and effort to protect these place a little better sometimes.
The views are totally obscured by a loomg pine wood to one side and hedgerows to the others, but it is still worth a visit.
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. |