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Fishguard harbour |
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... and as seen from the ferry |
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The Stone Age 7000-2000BC; Camp Site (Hunter-Gatherer, Mesolithic Period) |
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dugout canoe |
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Early Irish Farmstead (First Farmers, Neolithic Period) |
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Stones for grinding flour |
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Inside one of the houses |
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Portal stone - a dolmen |
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The Bronze Age 2000-500BC; Stone Circle (can see the alignment from a stone marking a Cist Burial through the entrance of the stone circle) |
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Stone Circle |
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The Celtic/Early Christian Age 500BC-1169AD; Ogham Stone |
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Celtic Farm |
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Weaving inside a Rath or Ring Fort |
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Early Christian Monastery |
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Corn Drying Kiln |
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Crannog |
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Round Norman Tower |
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Upper Lake at Glendalough |
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Mound of the Hostages |
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Lia Fail |
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Mound of the hostages, Hill of Tara |
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Ganesh running from the Mound of the Hostages |
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Newgrange |
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Entrance Stone (note tri-spiral on left, unique to Newgrange) |
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Wooden circle of enclosed village next to Newgrange (later) |
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A decorated curbstone |
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Little mound in next field - there are 2 such little mounds either side of Newgrange, making 5 in a nearly straight line |
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Entrance Stone (as 674) |
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Entrance showing roof box (unique to Newgrange) |
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Close up of roof box. This lined up with the horizon and the floor of the tomb chamber (the passageway having risen about 2 metres in height.) The 2 days before, day and 2 days after the winter solstice, the sun can shine through the roof box illuminating the passageway with the only direct sunlight it ever gets... unless it's cloudy. |
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Ganesh crawling through an early Christian souterrain |
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... and coming out the other side 19 seconds later |
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Eastern Passage at Knowth |
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An early Christian souterrain (perhaps used as a cold-store) |
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Wood Circle |
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Ganesh in a ditch |
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West Entrance to Knowth |
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Knowth is a big mound surrounded by lots of smaller mounds - here are 2 of the smaller ones |
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Big mound and a little neighbouring mound |
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Island |
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Cliffs |
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Causeway head |
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Folk quartet |
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... the bodhran player is going so fast that we can't see the beater |
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Spider's webs, heavy with dew and water droplets from the fog, make early Christmas Tree decorations |
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Onion rocks (formed by heating and cooling repeatedly) |
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Causeway from afar |
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The geometric tessalation |
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Smaller Causeway head |
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Ganesh on smaller causeway head |
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Ganesh clambering |
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The pillars of basalt |
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Main causeway |
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The cliffs look like steps |
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The Organ-pipes |
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Causeway close up |
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Highest point of the causeway |
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Giant's boot |
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Bay |
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Organ pipes |
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Island with odd shaped rock |
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The Chimney Pots |
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Steam Engine |
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View of inside of engine |
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cows on beach at Whitepark bay |
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Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge from afar - this bridge spans 20m, 24m above rocks and the sea. |
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small gorge |
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Gan crossing |
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Gan crossing (turned round) |
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cave from island |
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