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Beaghmore
Beaghmore is a complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features, stone circles and cairns, 8.5 miles north west of Cookstown, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, on the south-east edge of the Sperrin Mountains. Mackay's ''Dictionary of Ulster Place-names'' says that it is from Irish ''an Bheitheach Mhór'', meaning "big place of birch trees", a name that reflects the fact that the area was a woodland before being cleared by Neolithic farmers. Beaghmore stone circles, alignments and cairns are State Care Historic Monuments in the townland of Beaghmore, in the Cookstown District Council area, grid ref: Area of H684 842. At Beaghmore a cairn (grid ref: H6872 8470), a cairn (grid ref: H6856 8472), stone circles, alignments and cairns (grid ref: area of H684 842), round cairn with standing stones: Bradley's Cairn (grid ref: H6830 8401) and cairn and alignment (grid ref: H6863 8431), are all Scheduled Historic Monuments. Excavation The site was discovered by George Barnett in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Barnett (historian)
George Barnett (11 February 1876 – 10 April 1965) was an Irish historian, archaeologist, botanist, geologist, folklorist and poet. Self-taught, he acquired a vast knowledge of the Sperrins, Sperrin Mountains through experience, experimentation, observation, and traditional lore. He discovered many prehistoric sites, although he is best known for his discovery of the Beaghmore stone circles, and developed the theory that they were an ancient lunar observatory. This theory was expressed in his poem, ''The Beaghmore Stone Circles''. The Beaghmore Stone Circles Ceremonial occasions they often had there, They knew every day, aye, and week in the year, For fifty-two weeks they had stones in a ring, Thirteen in a line for the time the call Spring. The same for Summer, that time of great joy, Twenty-six for the Autumn and Winter stands nigh, Four stones that are bigger stand up in a line, For midsummer sunrise and midwinter time. One stone by the circle's a day it appears, Anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Archaeological Sites In County Tyrone
List of archaeological sites in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland: __NOTOC__ A * Aghafad, Rath, grid ref: H4603 5800 * Aghagogan, Wedge tomb, grid ref: H6391 7360 and standing stone, grid ref: H6398 7351 * Aghalane, Standing stone, stone circle, alignments and cist, grid ref: H4946 9260 * Aghalane, Court tomb: Cloghogle, grid ref: H5473 7854 * Aghaloo Church, in Rousky townland, grid ref: H6634 5494 * Aghalunny, Bridge: Fairy Bridge, grid ref: H1695 7985 * Aghascrebagh, Prehistoric burial monument: ‘Pagan Graveyard’, grid ref: H6162 8381 * Aghascrebagh, Ogham stone, grid ref: H6178 8390 * Aghascrebagh, Standing stone, grid ref: H6166 8397 * Aghintain, Fortified house, grid ref: H4985 5151 * Aghnagreggan, Court tomb, grid ref: H4985 5151 * Aghnahoo and Leitrim, Souterrain, grid ref: H2263 8032 *Ally, Court tomb, grid ref: H2570 7242 *Altanagh, Burial mound, grid ref: H6266 6936 * Altcloghfin, Portal tomb, grid ref: H5643 6244 * Altdrumman, Portal tomb: Cloghogle, grid re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cookstown, County Tyrone
Cookstown ( ga, An Chorr Chríochach, IPA: anˠˈxoːɾˠɾˠˈçɾʲiːxəx is a small town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the fourth largest town in the county and had a population of 11,599 in the 2011 census. It, along with Magherafelt and Dungannon, is one of the main towns in the Mid-Ulster council area. It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr. Alan Cooke, from the Archbishop of Armagh, who had been granted the lands after the Flight of the Earls during the Plantation of Ulster. It was one of the main centres of the linen industry west of the River Bann, and until 1956, the processes of flax spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town. History In 1609 land was leased to an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr Cooke, who fulfilled the covenants entered in the lease by building houses on the land. In 1628, King Charles I granted Letters Patent to Cooke permitting the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Stone Circle At Beaghmore
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
