Suspected Alignment / Alignments: Winter Solstice Sun-set
Site Type: Stone Circle
Irish Grid Ref: W0986070240
Location: Link to Bing Maps
Description:
This stone circle is described on Archaeology.ie as follows;
"In pasture, on the SW-facing slopes of Lacabaun Mountain. This anomalous stone group consists of a rectangular arrangement (long axis NE-SW) of four non-contiguous stone slabs. The NE slab (H 0.8m; 0.7m x 0.1m) is upright and lies parallel to the SW slab (H 1.22m; 1.2m x 0.12m) at a distance of 3.4m. The SW slab is also upright and has a notch carved on its upper surface. The SE slab (H 1.22m; 1m x 0.15m) is upright and has a notch carved on its SW edge while the NW slab (H 0.15m; 0.95m x 0.06m), which is parallel, barely protrudes above the surface of the bog at a distance of 2.9m."
This possible alignment comes via the user frogcottage42 on www.megalithic.co.uk. He theorises that the notch in SW stone marks the winter solstice sun-set.
Links to photographs;
Pictures of Grousemount Stone Circle by www.themodernantiquarian.com contributor Charles Coughlan
Links for further information;
Information on the circle on www.megalithic.co.uk
