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Spectacular Summer Solstice sunset over Newgrange
The clouds looked ominous as I headed out from home towards the Boyne Valley. As I got closer to Staleen, on the southern banks of the Boyne opposite Newgrange, I...
Spectacular Summer Solstice sunset over Newgrange
The clouds looked ominous as I headed out from home towards the Boyne Valley. As I got closer to Staleen, on the southern banks of the Boyne opposite Newgrange, I...
Circles in stone at Dowth
Dowth kerbstone with circular carvings, illuminated from different angles to highlight the art. This is a montage of four different images of a kerbstone at Dowth that has a number...
Circles in stone at Dowth
Dowth kerbstone with circular carvings, illuminated from different angles to highlight the art. This is a montage of four different images of a kerbstone at Dowth that has a number...
Knowth kerbstone 83 - natural and man-made holes
This is kerbstone 83 at Knowth – or, if you prefer Martin Brennan's numbering system (which I don't), kerbstone NW9. Professor George Eogan, who excavated Knowth, refers to the style...
Knowth kerbstone 83 - natural and man-made holes
This is kerbstone 83 at Knowth – or, if you prefer Martin Brennan's numbering system (which I don't), kerbstone NW9. Professor George Eogan, who excavated Knowth, refers to the style...
Heaven's mirror - as above, so below at Knowth
The interpretation of megalithic art is a highly subjective area. I have a tendency to go along with some, but not all, of Martin Brennan's interpretations, and am particularly impressed...
Heaven's mirror - as above, so below at Knowth
The interpretation of megalithic art is a highly subjective area. I have a tendency to go along with some, but not all, of Martin Brennan's interpretations, and am particularly impressed...
An investigation of the alignment of the passag...
Several years ago I wrote about the Cygnus Enigma and the apparent orientation of Newgrange towards Fourknocks and the orientation of Fourknocks towards a place on the horizon where the brightest star...
An investigation of the alignment of the passag...
Several years ago I wrote about the Cygnus Enigma and the apparent orientation of Newgrange towards Fourknocks and the orientation of Fourknocks towards a place on the horizon where the brightest star...
Science and mysticism - the genius of the Stone...
The more insignificant modern man becomes - on his shrinking earth, hardly a cosmic speck - the more arrogant he is. He feels far less humility toward the ever-vaster unknown...
Science and mysticism - the genius of the Stone...
The more insignificant modern man becomes - on his shrinking earth, hardly a cosmic speck - the more arrogant he is. He feels far less humility toward the ever-vaster unknown...