Talk:Scotia's Grave

Latest comment: 12 years ago by Dougweller in topic Unusual stone at the site

River name edit

Just wondering about the river name, the the river Finglas flows through Camp, which is further East, is there some mix up ?

King dumb (talk) 22:15, 3 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Sadly, these are just snippets [1] but seem to back up the article (in fact I think that's my edit). As does this [2]. And this [3]. Dougweller (talk) 07:51, 4 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Unusual stone at the site edit

I have actually visited the site of Scotia's Grave, located a good 15 minutes' walk down an old stone pathway into a glen formed by the Finglas, off the road over the Slieve Mish Mountains, on the north side of the mountains, south from Tralee and Ballyard . The is a very curious large, circular (perhaps even a tilted hemispherical) stone of at least two meters diameter there with a circular cavity of some 4 or five inches depth and perhaps the same in diameter seemingly ground out of the stone in the middle. This stone is white-colored, and there is nothing natural at all about it. Somehow I feel that someone well-versed in ancient archaeology and monuments should have a look at this monolith and determine if it is of any value in the study of Irish history. This stone would be too big for even several people to move. I saw no stone 35 feet long anywhere in sight, despite several visits to the place.

One gets a very special feeling for Ireland and Irish history by visiting this place: there is not a single evidence of human activity anywhere in sight there except for this large stone, a stone circle of dubious antiquity a little further on at the end of the path, and the path itself.Daniel Sparkman (talk) 19:41, 26 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Fascinating. The way we work we can't use your observations, but if you took a photo we might be able to use that. The 35 foot stone is described here [4] - is that where you were? Dougweller (talk) 20:21, 26 August 2011 (UTC)Reply