@@david_v2.1 wow I’m sure it’s a great place to enjoy the solitude. Even when I was there yesterday on a mizz-ly afternoon there were still half a dozen people roaming about that I tried to avoid disturbing 😂
What a wonderfully historic location! As you said, it's terrific that it's been so well protected and respected over the centuries, even if we can no longer fully understand its meaning. Many thanks for showing and sharing this. 👍🙂
What a place! I’ve never heard of this one before - so thanks for the stroll around the circle. Have you visited Beltaney circle outside of Raphoe in Donegal? Very like this one, but with a ring of standing stones. Life and death, sacred and profane - people have entered into sacred spaces to,lay their loved ones into the earth - and look to the stars to glimpse the face of eternity. Thanks for the visit.
@@janechamblesswright119 so myself and the wife have toured all Ireland extensively other than Malin Head/ Inishowen region. Grianan of Aileach I am desperate to see and I am adding Beltaney now on your kind appreciated advice! Magical places!
@@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian - you are most welcome! It’s wonderful that BOTH of you love the old things, and take joy in the visiting,,, We prefer the sites where we get to be alone with the monuments, and are not surrounded by hordes of tourists. Beltaney is this place - you and the sheep. Grianan of Aileach is remarkable, and well worth the visit - but feels somehow a bit over-restored and even though it was a frigid January morning with a shrieking wind which wanted to carry you off to Derry - we were surrounded by many other folks and their conversations. Would love to watch your reactions to both places, and hear what you think?
@@janechamblesswright119 in fairness Jane my wife and me have the same values but very different interests. History and most of my recordings do not interest her but she endures the trips and avoids the camera 😂 Yes you will notice I tend to stay away from the tourist spots and stick to lesser spotted things that I find interesting. Well hopefully I will soon share travels up to these remarkable Donegal places ☺️
Great video as usual- I live beside this - the field to the right has another dolmen and is an ancient graveyard, where the Ballynahatty skull was found , Barrie Hartwells book on this is very interesting- keep up the good work 👍
@@sparkosone thank you and look how close I was to you today ☺️ By ‘the field to the right’ do you mean to the right of the car park or further down the Ballynahatty Road? Could one just wonder down the field for a further video? 😗
@@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian as u come thru gate go right along bank , halfway along look right , in the middle of field there is a big rock , this is where the wooden structure would have been , it’s believed to be some kind of crematorium that for some reason was deliberately burnt - unsure of access as it’s a crop field but the odd person does venture between harvests 👍
This would be my church...regularly cycle to it on an early Sunday morning and have the place to myself.
@@david_v2.1 wow I’m sure it’s a great place to enjoy the solitude. Even when I was there yesterday on a mizz-ly afternoon there were still half a dozen people roaming about that I tried to avoid disturbing 😂
What a wonderfully historic location! As you said, it's terrific that it's been so well protected and respected over the centuries, even if we can no longer fully understand its meaning. Many thanks for showing and sharing this. 👍🙂
@@tacraling thank you for your kind comment and support as always!
Great video, l wonder how many people have walked past those stone's since they were built?.
@@joanmatchett8100 hundreds of thousands of souls over a hundred generations
What a place! I’ve never heard of this one before - so thanks for the stroll around the circle. Have you visited Beltaney circle outside of Raphoe in Donegal? Very like this one, but with a ring of standing stones.
Life and death, sacred and profane - people have entered into sacred spaces to,lay their loved ones into the earth - and look to the stars to glimpse the face of eternity.
Thanks for the visit.
@@janechamblesswright119 so myself and the wife have toured all Ireland extensively other than Malin Head/ Inishowen region.
Grianan of Aileach I am desperate to see and I am adding Beltaney now on your kind appreciated advice!
Magical places!
@@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian - you are most welcome! It’s wonderful that BOTH of you love the old things, and take joy in the visiting,,,
We prefer the sites where we get to be alone with the monuments, and are not surrounded by hordes of tourists. Beltaney is this place - you and the sheep. Grianan of Aileach is remarkable, and well worth the visit - but feels somehow a bit over-restored and even though it was a frigid January morning with a shrieking wind which wanted to carry you off to Derry - we were surrounded by many other folks and their conversations.
Would love to watch your reactions to both places, and hear what you think?
@@janechamblesswright119 in fairness Jane my wife and me have the same values but very different interests. History and most of my recordings do not interest her but she endures the trips and avoids the camera 😂
Yes you will notice I tend to stay away from the tourist spots and stick to lesser spotted things that I find interesting.
Well hopefully I will soon share travels up to these remarkable Donegal places ☺️
Great video as usual- I live beside this - the field to the right has another dolmen and is an ancient graveyard, where the Ballynahatty skull was found , Barrie Hartwells book on this is very interesting- keep up the good work 👍
@@sparkosone thank you and look how close I was to you today ☺️
By ‘the field to the right’ do you mean to the right of the car park or further down the Ballynahatty Road? Could one just wonder down the field for a further video? 😗
@@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian as u come thru gate go right along bank , halfway along look right , in the middle of field there is a big rock , this is where the wooden structure would have been , it’s believed to be some kind of crematorium that for some reason was deliberately burnt - unsure of access as it’s a crop field but the odd person does venture between harvests 👍
@@sparkosone thank you 🙏