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| Visited July 1998 |
Uragh is probably our
favourite circle from the1998 Irish tour, we had little or no prior information
on it, and its spectacular nature caught us completely by surprise.
A huge monolith is set very close to the tiny stone circle, and the whole is
perched on a little terrace halfway up the hillside giving breathtaking views
across Loch Inchiquin. In such good condition, it is hard to see how this site
escaped inclusion in Burl’s books. The circle is a typical Irish five stone
recumbent with average sized slablike stones tangentially placed, all are
standing but the SE portal stone has started to fall. The monolith is a huge
rectangular slab standing only 60cm from the recumbent stone, it has been
arranged radially to the circle, totally dominating the site. Uragh should be at
the top of the trip list for the megalithically inclined visitor in this region.