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Until we meet in the stones ... Ride On!!

Tom

Over the last six months of 2007 the web server that megalithomania.com was running on was not up to the task. As many of you will have noticed it was often off-line due to heavy demand. To counter this the site has been moved to a much higher specification machine. This costs a lot of money, so please help support the site by buying something from the shop. Watch out for my new t-shirts coming soon featuring drawings of monuments from 19th Century books.

A Long Hard Climb - Glad We Found Something - Saturday, 19th July 2008 

Todat Ken Williams and I climbed up Baltinglass Hill. The last time I went I swore it would be the last time. I'd looked for the carvings up there and found nothing, so I had no reason whatsoever to climb up there again. Then, Ken rings me and says that he'd been told that several of the kerb stones have carvings on them too - do I fancy going up. Oh no ... here we go again.

After my lungs nearly collapsed at several points on the climb (I really must give up smoking!) we reached the top and once again I was at this magnificent monument. The climb up is getting harder, because the band of gorse bushes on the west slopes is now of fairy tale thickness proportions. Anyone would think that there is a princess sleeping in a tower up there! Sadly we didn't find the carvings on the kerbstones even with a printout of Walshes plan in hand.

Continued ...