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Ballycroghan, Standing stone and Bronze Age burials, grid ref: J5381 8068 Ballycroghan , Cooking places – Area A and Area B, grid refs: J5393 7970 and J5383 7944 Ballycrune , Rath , grid ref: J3027 5648
A cove is a tightly concentrated group of large standing stones found in Neolithic and Bronze Age England. Coves are square or rectangular in plan and seem to have served as small enclosures within other henge, stone circle or avenue features. They consist of three or four orthostats placed together to give the impression of a box. An opening ...
A menhir (/ ˈ m ɛ n h ɪər /; [1] from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long" [2]), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. They can be found individually as monoliths, or as part of a group of similar ...
Cú Chulainn ties himself to a standing stone — traditionally Clochafarmore ("Stone of the Big Man"), which had been erected to mark the grave of a past great warrior. [5] Cú Chulainn continues to fight his enemies, and it is only when a raven (the traditional form of The Morrígan) lands on his shoulder that his enemies believe he is dead ...
The stone is a remarkable artifact from the ancient world — but it lay forgotten for hundreds of years. Weighing in at 115 pounds and standing two feet tall, the stone was discovered in 1913 ...
The stone in turn by reverse metonymy was named Lia Fáil "[Standing] Stone of Ireland". Inisfail appears as a synonym for Erin in some Irish romantic and nationalist poetry in English in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Aubrey Thomas de Vere 's 1863 poem Inisfail is an example.
The stone is made of local granite; it is almost 7 metres high and weighs over 9 tonnes. Out of around 600 standing stones in southwestern Ireland, this is the tallest. It fell over in 1931, and was re-erected three years later. [2] [4] [5]