Today I went to Wexford on another bullaun hunt. Despite being very wet I saw some lovely things. I found five bullaun stones, one of which is at the very nice ruined Romanesque church at Clone. Not a great deal of its decoration is left, but the door pillars and several carved heads are still there, as is a little cross and a sundial.

Normally, finding five bullauns would be enough excitement for me (I'm obviously easy to please!), but Monu-Mental About Prehistoric Waterford is now available in the shops and directly from the megalithomania shop. To celebrate the release of my second title I have reduce the shipping costs on my books. Now there is free delivery within Ireland and its just 1 Euro for the rest of the world! Every copy of both books sold from now on will also be signed.

So, come on - there's probably still time to order either book and get it in time for Christmas!

For some weeks/months now myself and Ken Williams have been trying to pick the right day to hunt down a lovely rock art panel in Crannagh townland, County Carlow. It's a 1.9km walk from the road to the stone, which is situated on a rocky slope making finding it quite daunting. While I was waiting for Ken to arrive a local farmer told me the best route up the hill, but knew nothing of the stone. Then, shortly after Ken arrived, a local man (named Mike I think - my memory's terrible so forgive me if I'm wrong) stopped to chat. He'd tried finding the stone himself before, but hadn't managed it. I gave him the GPS coordinates I had, which are pretty accurate - they turned out to be just 14m out.

The walk up the valley alongside Mountain River is a relatively easy one. All the time the top of Mount Leinster beckons you onward - well, today just the radio mast was poking through some low cloud, but the effect is almost the same. The stone is a beauty. After spending quite some time photographing the panel and saying that there must be some more in the area I wandered off to look at a few stones. I was attracted to the largest rock on the hillside and guess what ... it is decorated! It is not as nice as the first panel, nor as well-preserved, but it's there and I discovered it! My first rock art discovery! What's more, the first Crannagh panel was thought to be the highest in Leinster, but not any more. This new panel is about 10m higher.

After returning to our cars we called in at a farm in Knocksquire to see if we could see another panel that was found nearby and moved to the farmyard. It now resides in Carlow museum according to the farmer.

I then headed home via the lovely wall-embedded rock art panel at Ballinkillin to get a good GPS reading and some better photos.

I have seen so much rock art lately that you're probably getting a bit tired of seeing nothing else, so today was a trip to break the recent trend. Today I was off to see passage tombs! Not any old passage tombs and not your usual suspects, either. Today was about Antrim and its small group of coastal, passage-less passage tombs plus the amazing hilltop passage tomb-proper at Carnanmore.

I had meant to see a lot more on my way up through Antrim, but it was very foggy for the best part of the morning, forcing me to drive on by many interesting looking sites. Luckily, by the time I reached a bit further north the mist and fog had all cleared and I was able to make my ascent up a rough, boggy hillside to Carnanmore.

The site before Carnanmore was a real surprise. I was expecting a court tomb, but instead found a southerly outlier to the northern coastal passage tomb group. And what views, too! That comment applies from most of the sites I went to today - I could see clearly across to Scotland at one point!

Once again the people of Antrim made me feel very welcome. Lovely chats and kind permission to visit the sites is always a feature of a trip to Antrim.