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

Tom

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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.

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Enter The Burren - The Cavan Burren, That Is - Sunday, 29th June 2008 

Today was one of the wonderful days in the year when my wife, Uta, and I go out together. It's always a pleasure to do so, as I not only have great company, but I get to revisit some great sites and experience new ones with her, too. Today we decided to head for Burren in Cavan. Here you can find wedge tombs, portal tombs, rock art and more: all within a short distance of each other. To help us find some of the monuments we had a little booklet with us produced by Gaby Burns who has, in recent years, spent much time surveying the area.

Apart from visiting the megalithic tombs in the area I wanted to track down the three rock art panels in the townland. This we did successfully and as an added bonus I found one that isn't included in the booklet and may well be a new panel.

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