DAY NINE: Cork to Mallow

With the highest concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age megaliths in Ireland, I plan to spend some time in the Cork countryside.

Blarney Castle is not far outside Cork city.

And is exceedingly well-signed.  Looking across The Square.

A Chinese restaurant next to Blarney Castle.

This would be as close as I could get to Blarney Castle.  The tall trees in the gardens surrounding blocked al view.

Thank goodness I can kiss the Virtual Blarney Stone so the trip isn't a complete waste.

An unmapped lake within the castle grounds.

Morning dew at Knockaneeg.

The Grenagh stone circle can be seen just left of centre.

The two white dots in the distance to the right of centre are the Beenalaght standing stones.

Glandine standing stones in the same fields as the cows, just at the fence-line to the left of centre.

The 3 metre high Glandine stones can be seen peaking over the top of the hedge.

The very tip of a Glandine stone.

The top of another stone seen from the road, over the embankment.

A lot of the sites I tried to visit, like this one in Island, Cork, visibility was non existent from the road.

Or high hedges kept stones just out of site.

The GPS says I'm supposed to me looking at a low stone circle in this field at Knockane.

There's something in the centre but I'm not certain if that's the circle.

Looking at a row of six stones from side on at Beenalaght, Cork.

A closer view reveals a thorn next to the row.

Calling it quits, I drove north to Mallow to spend the night.