Derryinver

Suspected Alignment / Alignments:  Winter Solstice Sun-set
Site Type: Stone Row
Irish Grid Ref: L6844061140
Location: Link to Bing Maps


Derryinver looking towards the west. 


 Description:

 This stone row is described on Archaeology.ie as follows;


 "On the level summit of The Tulach, a prominent ridge between Tully Mountain and Tully Lough. Known as Finn Mc Cool's Fingers, it comprises six stones, aligned N-S, and measuring 16m overall. The three northern stones are rounded granite boulders, decreasing in height from N to S (1.8m, 1.2m, 0.7m). The southern stones, which also decrease in height from N to S (1.6m, 0.7m, 0.5m), are, in contrast, rectangular slabs of schist. A possible seventh stone lies c. 0.6m further to N. The row is part of a complex of monuments on the hill which includes a pre-bog enclosure c. 100m to NE (GA010-005----), an unclassified stone structure c. 35m to SW (GA010-004----), and a series of pre-bog field walls (GA010-006----). (Killanin 1954, 98-9; Ó Nualláin 1988, 195; Gibbons and Higgins 1988a)".

The first record I came across of this alignment is in an article in Archaeology Ireland in Winter 1999 on JSTOR by Gerry Bracken.  Unusually this "setting" of the sun occurs around 1.50pm in the afternoon. I should mention that unfortunately there are no entry signs onto the land where the stone row is located.

Links to photographs;
Picture of Derryinver Stone Row on www.megalithic.co.uk by Anthony Weir


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