Moymore : Stone Circle
Visit Notes
Sunday, 8th January 2006
It seems a bit lame to catagorise this site as a stone circle , because there are nine here ... all abutting one another. Unfortunately, the grass around the mainly low stones is too high (and apparently rarely cut) so you can't really see everything.
What you can see very well are two perpendicular rows of stones, which stand around 1m tall. It's not until you walk through the site that you start to notice most of the hidden stones. What a place this would be if it was cleared. The longer of the two rows is around 10m long. The shorter one is about 5m long. Looking closely there may be two other broken rows of similar scale that could form a rectangle. If so then this would be the only megalithic rectangle in Ireland, if not the British Isles!
Unlike Beaghmore (County Tyrone) the circles here are compressed into a small, fenced in area roughly 50m x 20m. A large pile of rocks in one corner suggest that the complex once conatined a lot more and covered a larger area ... wow! There are also two large stones set into one field boundary, so there may have been some more of the large rows in the next field too.
The good & bad news about this visit was that the weather was pretty bad. This meant that visibility was very low and the great views from here weren't available. This means I'll have to go back in the summer!!!
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