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Fairies at the Stone Circle

This is the other-worldly stone circle at Ballynoe, near Downpatrick. I discovered it last week while staying for a few days at the wonderful River Mill writer’s retreat in county Down (up north).

To get to the stone circle you follow a path between fields. It goes down through an arcade of hawthorns and other trees.

People have left all sorts of offerings on the branches – to the fairies? to whomever will listen?

The 50 stones in the circle have been standing there for about 4,000 years, mysteriously placed in a rough circle with a Bronze Age burial mound in the middle. It faces the moody Mourne mountains in the distance.

On this day, the sun was setting over the mountains and no-one else was around but a bunch of sheep who were straying in over the crumbled-down stone wall.

Dóchas – Hope

Another guest at the Mill that night said “ah aye, there are a few stone circles up where I am in Antrim”.

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Språkvask is the Norwegian word for proofing text. Literally it means “language wash”; a more poetic way of saying it!

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