Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/649 Fishguard harbour
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/651 ... and as seen from the ferry
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/653 The Stone Age 7000-2000BC; Camp Site (Hunter-Gatherer, Mesolithic Period)
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/654 dugout canoe
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/655 Early Irish Farmstead (First Farmers, Neolithic Period)
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/656 Stones for grinding flour
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/657 Inside one of the houses
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/658 Portal stone - a dolmen
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/659 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)
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/660 Stone Circle
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/661 The Celtic/Early Christian Age 500BC-1169AD; Ogham Stone
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/662 Celtic Farm
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/663 Weaving inside a Rath or Ring Fort
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/664 Early Christian Monastery
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/665 Corn Drying Kiln
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/666 Crannog
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/667 Round Norman Tower
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/668 Upper Lake at Glendalough
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/669 Mound of the Hostages
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/670 Lia Fail
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/672 Ganesh running from the Mound of the Hostages
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/673 Newgrange
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/674 Entrance Stone (note tri-spiral on left, unique to Newgrange)
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/675 Wooden circle of enclosed village next to Newgrange (later)
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/678 A decorated curbstone
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/679 Little mound in next field - there are 2 such little mounds either side of Newgrange, making 5 in a nearly straight line
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/681 Entrance Stone (as 674)
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/682 Entrance showing roof box (unique to Newgrange)
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/684 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.
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/685 Ganesh crawling through an early Christian souterrain
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/686 ... and coming out the other side 19 seconds later
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/687 Eastern Passage at Knowth
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/688 An early Christian souterrain (perhaps used as a cold-store)
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/689 Wood Circle
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/690 Ganesh in a ditch
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/691 West Entrance to Knowth
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/692 Knowth is a big mound surrounded by lots of smaller mounds - here are 2 of the smaller ones
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/693 Big mound and a little neighbouring mound
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/694 Island
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/695 Cliffs
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/696 Causeway head
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/697 Folk quartet
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/698 ... the bodhran player is going so fast that we can't see the beater
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/699 Spider's webs, heavy with dew and water droplets from the fog, make early Christmas Tree decorations
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/702 Onion rocks (formed by heating and cooling repeatedly)
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/704 Causeway from afar
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/705 The geometric tessalation
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/706 Smaller Causeway head
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/708 Ganesh on smaller causeway head
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/709 Ganesh clambering
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/710 The pillars of basalt
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/713 Main causeway
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/714 The cliffs look like steps
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/715 The Organ-pipes
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/716 Causeway close up
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/717 Highest point of the causeway
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/719 Giant's boot
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/720 Bay
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/721 Organ pipes
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/722 Island with odd shaped rock
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/725 The Chimney Pots
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Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/729 Steam Engine
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/731 View of inside of engine
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/733 cows on beach at Whitepark bay
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/734 Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge from afar - this bridge spans 20m, 24m above rocks and the sea.
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/735 small gorge
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/736 Gan crossing
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/737 Gan crossing (turned round)
Photo /users/aendr/cheshirecat/738 cave from island