ROUGH STONE MONUMENTS 



of the larger circle. Captain Boyle Somerville, 

 r.n., finds that the line 29 or 30 west of north 

 would mark the setting of Capella in B.C. 1600, 

 or Arcturus 500 B.C. ; he adds that the direction 

 41 ° west of north would suit Capella in 2500 B.C. 

 or Castor in 2000 B.C. 



On the west side of Lough Gur is another 

 group of monuments. There is in the first place 

 a circle 55 feet in diameter. On a line 35 ° east 

 of north from this is a stone 10 feet high, and the 

 same line produced strikes a prominent hill-top. 

 Somewhere to the south-west of this circle, perhaps 

 with its centre in the line just described, lay a 

 second circle between 150 and 170 feet in dia- 

 meter, destroyed in 1870. Three other stones 

 mentioned by early writers as being near the 

 circles have now disappeared. The direction 35 ° 

 east of north is the same as that of the King- 

 stone with regard to the Rollright Circle in Oxford- 

 shire. This line, allowing a height of 3 for the 

 horizon, would, according to Sir Norman Lockyer, 

 have struck the rising points of Capella in 1700 

 B.C. and Arcturus in 500 B.C. 



To the south of the destroyed circle is another 

 about 150 to 155 feet in diameter, with stones of 

 over 5 feet in height set close together. Earth is 

 piled up outside them to form a bank 30 feet wide. 

 There is an entrance 3 feet wide in a direction 

 59 east of north from the centre of the circle. 

 There is said to have been at one time a cromlech 



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