Clonakilty Weekend
This tour starts with a historical narrative about West Cork of the 1940s. You can have a fun and memorable day out in Clonakilty, located overlooking Clonakilty Bay on the coast road to the magnificent blue flag beach of Inchidoney. The unique West Cork model railway village on the bay is a delightful discovery for both young and old alike. Here, one can step back in time and follow the route of a miniaturised version of the former West Cork Railway and experience life as it was in the 1940s.
The models and figurines are handmade at the model village to a scale of 1.24.
The Drombeg Stone Circle, some two miles east of the village of Glandore in county
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This tour starts with a historical narrative about West Cork of the 1940s. You can have a fun and memorable day out in Clonakilty, located overlooking Clonakilty Bay on the coast road to the magnificent blue flag beach of Inchidoney. The unique West Cork model railway village on the bay is a delightful discovery for both young and old alike. Here, one can step back in time and follow the route of a miniaturised version of the former West Cork Railway and experience life as it was in the 1940s.
The models and figurines are handmade at the model village to a scale of 1.24.
The Drombeg Stone Circle, some two miles east of the village of Glandore in county Cork, has long been regarded as the exemplar of the recumbent stone circles of the south/west or Ireland.
The site dates back to the years 1124-794 BC. The site deservedly attracts many visitors each year and has been the most well known monument in the area since it was excavated in the 1950s by a Cork archeological team.
They discovered many interesting features, including the pleasant arrangement of hut sites and a Fulacht Fiadh (cooking place of the hunters) built around a natural spring to the west of the circle.
The stone circle consists of seventeen stones. The area enclosed averages 9.3 metres in diameter.
The stones of the circle are hewn from a locally found sandstone, though from where they originally came is not known. The smooth inner faces of most stones probably took a great deal of effort to achieve.
If you take a direct line from the entrance where the two portal stones are, you will find that the axis of the circle lies NE-SW.
The Recumbent Stone is the most fundamental stone of the circle, being the most laboriously worked of all and the one which appears to have the primary role in the largely unknown astronomical functions of the circle.
The top of the Recumbent Stone has been carved to achieve its almost entirely horizontal and inward sloping dimensions. On the surface can be seen the inscription of three cup and ring marks.
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