Hi all 👋🏻
Today I want to share with you a walk I did after I visited BERTRA BEACH… from my last weeks post. I stopped at a parking bay next to the road and visited “ANNAGH-KILLADANGAN” a Bronze Age #Archaeological site in County Mayo ~ Ireland 🇮🇪
This is site number 5 out of 21 archaeological and heritage sites in this area, part of the Clew Bay trail.
The locations pointed out, I found on the following website, which I made a screenshot from… for you :
Source! Do have a look at this website as it also describes each of the sites. (Westportheritage.com)
With this post I’m joining in at the Wednesday Walk challenge and Make me Smile challenge. That are hosted by @tattoodjay and @elizacheng every week on Wednesday.
‼️Have a look: Here in the Wednesday Walk Community if you want to join in!… the community is run by @tattoodjay.
Look at his last Wednesdaywalk post here:
Wednesday Walk a selection of shots from this weeks walks
It will tell you also the rules of joining at the Wednesday walk posts 😁 come join us!
Today’s selection will be of 26 PHOTOGRAPHS
Date: 26 May 2023.
The Photographs in this post are all taken with my iPhone 📱🤓
I will follow the time stamps on them. So it looks like you are experiencing my adventures on this #walk, to 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 #discover everything what I saw, like the little #details seen through my eyes and observe with me the stunning #scenery, #march, #archaeological #site, next to the #sea and #mountains. 😊
The following screenshot is the location of this site on Google maps, see the yellow star ⭐️:
Zooming out a bit you see the following screenshot of Google maps:
At the entrance there is a gate, where we find this sign.
It tells us :
While viewing this collection of ancient monuments you are standing on a salt marsh, which can be submerged with most high tides occur. In earlier millenia, however, the high tides would not have troubled these sites.
This suberb collection of monuments, probably dating from the Bronze Age, includes an oval shaped enclosure, with a fine stone row, as well as a possible stone circle, and a possible fulacht fiadh (bronze-age cooking area).
The extent of this grouping of monuments suggests that this was a major ceremonial site.
What is most remarkable about the enclosure is the stone row (four stones standing, one has fallen down), which increases in height from north to south, drawing the eye up to a niche in the eastern shoulder of Croagh Patrick. At about 1.50 p.m. on December 21st, the winter solstice, the sun dips into this little niche or kink in the mountain. At this point, the sun is directly in line with the row of stones, before disappearing shortly afterwards behind the mountain.
So interesting to read, don’t you think?
Let’s keep that in mind when we find those 4 standing stones.
Let’s start our walk from today 😊 are you coming along? You must be excited now after reading this 😊
We look around us and see a little bit of the bay.
Some great cloud formations over the mountains on the other side.
We reach the grass area and see a lot of stones spread over a large area.
Do you remember the peak ⛰️in the distance? It is Croagh Patrick.
The standing stones are hidden between the grasses…
We walk around a bit to find some of the #bronzeage #monuments
We see stones, but can’t distinguish a firepit or stone circle. All stones are spread out… a lot.
Some stones are cracked.
We see dried up areas and can imagine them full of water. This is a March, remember 🤓
Do you see the boot?
I find some pretty flowers 🌸
So beautiful, as you know… #alwaysaflower as Denise @dswigle says 😉 🌸🌸🌸🌸
The views around are just stunning 🤩
The mountain and the low clouds behind it 🥰
More flowers along the waterfront 🌸🌸🌸
Everywhere you look we see these pink flowers 🌸
We walk a bit along the waterfront…
To reach the standing stones. 😊
…and here they are. This is a different angle than the first photo/ thumbnail.
So cool… to imagine that at winter solstice they line up and you see, looking along them the moment the sun hits the mountains in a specific spot 😎
Very cool 😎
Let’s walk to that beautiful tree 🌳
I love the way it is shaped by the wind, here along the wild Atlantic west 😊
Let’s be creative with the tree and take some artistic captures 📸
It’s branches with the blossoms 🌸🌸🌸🌸
Focussing on the mountains in the distance 😉
I find a dried crab 🦀 along the shore in the grass…
And while we walk back towards the road, as we couldn’t find the other monuments… I suspect they were hidden in the long grasses… I capture this flower… braving all odds and was growing on the wall along the road 😎
Maybe next time I research and find out where the exact locations are… but for now. The standing stones and other stones that were spread out over this area… are pretty cool already. 🤓
…and here I say that’s all for today’s post my friends.
Join me next time for more #updates, #adventures, #stories and #photographs 😎👋🏻 Even some #artworks once in a while will come by” 🎨
Thank you so much for looking, and reading.
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Have a great Wednesday all 😎
Grtz Jackie
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!pinmapple 53.78192 lat -9.60331 long “Let’s visit ANNAGH-KILLADANGAN” a Bronze Age Archaeological site in CO. MAYO ~ IRELAND 🇮🇪 ~ Wednesday Walk d3scr