Gurteen : Stone Circle
Visit Notes
Sunday, 25th September 2005
Every so often you come across a site that is perfect and this is one of those. What a beautiful stone circle this is. Of the eleven stones that make up the circle just one has fallen.
As you walk up the little track that leads from the road and see the circle for the first time you see a low, flat-topped stone opposite you and assume it is the axial stone - an easy mistake to make (I did). A line drawn through this stone from the centre of the circle points directly at a bug scoop in the mountains, so it does seem to mark a definite alignment. However, just to make sure you know which is the real one, the proper axial stone is massively long - over two metres across! To make doubly sure there are two entrance stones set outside the circle opposite this.
The more you look at this one the more amazing it gets. The axial stone points SW (as you would expect) in a Cork/Kerry stone circle. The pseudo axial stone points south. The tallest, most pointy stone marks due east and pointing north there is a squared off stone. Oh, and did I mention that there's a boulder burial in the middle of the circle?
What a beautiful place. The views are amazing and being so remote there isn't a sound in the air to disturb you.
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A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
8.7 Km (SSE) there is a Stone Circle at Derrynafinchin (Co. Cork).
6.4 Km (SW) there is a Fulacht Fia at Dromagorteen.
7 Km (SSW) there is a Bullaun Stone at Feaghna.
6.4 Km (SW) there is a Standing Stone at Dromagorteen.
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 Clogherny (Co. Tyrone) |  Knockanaffrin (Co. Waterford) |  Scartaglin (Co. Kerry) |
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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. |
