Fogbow

David Keohan

A short chat about the importance of these irish stones of strength. Not only great feats of power to lift them, but they are touch stones to our socio-economic, political, religious, artistic and mythological past. They are ireland. They are us. Have a listen . Here's the gofund me and id really appreciate the help. https://gofund.me/26c4478f

Foggy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 8:46 am And it is, in fact, a beautiful chunk of pink granite.

Suranis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 1:36 pm

Foggy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 8:46 am And it is, in fact, a beautiful chunk of pink granite.

Ya and the thing is, Pink Granite is NOT native to the area. At all. I haven't a clue how that rock got there. It's a big fat mystery. I guess it could have been transported there, but why leave it on the side of the road then??

The name comes from the Greek word ‘errare’ meaning to wander. The term is applied to rocks that have been carried some distance from their original outcrop. We have some excellent examples of large granite boulders that have come from across Galway Bay. There are no outrops of Galway Granite in the Burren so the boulders must have been transported here. The vast majority of our erratic boulders are limestone and local to the Burren, so the transport distances aren’t huge.

One of the useful features of erratics is that they can tell us the direction that the ice flowed, so we know that the Galway granite boulders were carried south to the Burren by ice sheets flowing from Connemara. In southern County Clare at the Bridges of Ross we have erratics that were carried there from County Kerry whereas in eastern Clare we find erratics carried from the Slieve Aughty mountains. This tells us that local ice sheet flow spread out from regional upland areas and that while the overall flow of the main ice sheets in Ireland was from the northeast, the local pattern can be more complex.

much ado wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 2:03 pm
It is a glacial erratic carried by glaciers thousands of years ago, perhaps not to the side of the road, but near there.

Suranis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 2:12 pm Ya, if it was the Burren I'd agree. But this is on an Island off the coast.

Eh, it doesn't matter much. Ya, it probably was a Glacial drop, but that's not ROMANTIC.

much ado wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 2:03 pm
It is a glacial erratic carried by glaciers thousands of years ago, perhaps not to the side of the road, but near there.

much ado wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 2:26 pm At maximum glaciation, ice covered all of Ireland and all of the western islands in one enormous sheet that also covered northern Great Britain. The ice covering Inishmore came from the north bringing erratics with it. There wasn't a coast then.

Colm Broderick (County Carlow, Ireland) and Patrick Finley (Atlanta, Georgia) have created a wonderful partnership in Irish traditional music.

Colm is a multiple All-Ireland champion piper and was selected by Na Píobairi Uilleann as the inheritor of Liam ó Floinn's pipes, on Liam's death in 2018.

Colm has performed at many prestigious venues including in the National Concert Hall, Dublin Castle and Áras an Uachtaráin among many others. In 2021 Colm performed a private concert for President Michael D Higgins at his home where he was awarded the 2021 Seán O'Riada Gold medal by the president.

Colm is a primary school teacher, however, recently he has been playing and touring in the US and Ireland when he is not busy teaching in his local Carlow primary schools.

Patrick, a multiple All-Ireland champion fiddler, plays with a unique style with influences from Sligo and Clare music.

Patrick began playing the fiddle at the age of four, joining the Atlanta Irish Music School, and eventually studying with Sligo fiddler Oisin Mac Diarmada. Patrick is also an experienced music teacher, having co-founded the Phoenix School of Irish Arts in Atlanta, teaching Irish music on a variety of instruments.

Together, they focus on creating a refreshingly traditional style of music on the pipes and fiddle.

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 2:13 pm I didn't see the piper blow into his pipe once. What's with that? Enjoyed the musical interlude, though.

KNICKEEN OGHAM STONE.
Following on from yesterday's story.
After driving back Down from the cemetery and finding and lifting the Leitrim stones, I said to the soldier on the checkpoint, I believe there's a large standing stone up the road a bit, would it be possible to get a look at it?
"they're will be another soldier up there you'll have to ask him"
"grand" says i " thanks a mill mate"
About 500yds up the road I get to another soldier and checkpoint, and explain I'm a history buff and id like to visit the stone in the field.
"I dunno" he said, "we have live rounds being fired here in less than 15 mins"
"ah ill only be 5" I said.
"You got 5, thats IT. now hurry"

Run in get some great pics, wow what a stone. Almost heart shaped, HUGE. 8ft tall id say,

Ogham writing on the side.... The Ogham inscription on the North East corner reads ‘Maqi Nili’, which broadly means ‘Of the son of Niall’. Ogham is the oldest form of writing in the early Irish language and was used for about 500 years from the Early Christian era.

There is a local myth that I found on dúchas.ie about the stone, which says that it was thrown by Fionn Mac Cumhaill from the top of Lugnaquilla, and that the markings on the edge of the stone are the imprints of his fingers! Don't you just love it? There is no way that I can exaggerate how incredible this place is.

Surrounded by panoramic mountains and woods, the stone stands in a small grassy clearing looking out on the formidable view. The area is very secluded, and absent of any sound except for the hum of nature, which will be broken by the the soon to be heard gunshots as I get a shout from the soldier To " leave NOW" run out grab a selfie, and tear out with the road hearing the gunshots start to CRACK CRACK as I go.

much ado wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 9:56 pm I hope it's appropriate to post this here...

These lads are coming to the Far West! And I'm going to hear them at a house concert next month. If mrs ado and I get there early enough, we will be sitting just a few feet from them.



From the email sent out by the organizer:

Colm Broderick (County Carlow, Ireland) and Patrick Finley (Atlanta, Georgia) have created a wonderful partnership in Irish traditional music.


Together, they focus on creating a refreshingly traditional style of music on the pipes and fiddle.

Foggy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 5:36 am Okay, that damned stone kept me up last night.

That stone is saying "I don't belong here."

Thrown from someplace? Nah.

Fell from the sky? That's consistent with its placement and semi-burial.

But in the final analysis, they grew it from a seed.

I didn't even know you could do that.

Foggy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 5:36 am Okay, that damned stone kept me up last night.

That stone is saying "I don't belong here."

Thrown from someplace? Nah.

Fell from the sky? That's consistent with its placement and semi-burial.

But in the final analysis, they grew it from a seed.

I didn't even know you could do that.

Foggy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 5:36 am Okay, that damned stone kept me up last night.

That stone is saying "I don't belong here."

Thrown from someplace? Nah.

Fell from the sky? That's consistent with its placement and semi-burial.

But in the final analysis, they grew it from a seed.

I didn't even know you could do that.