Wednesday 21 October 2020

A Stone Cairn.

 

Up on the hills and on the stone and boggy  ridges of the Sheepshead Peninsula where we live in South west  Ireland.  There are stone cairns.  Historians say they are burial sites for Celtic chieftains cremated ashes.  Some historians say these piles of stones were built by the English Ordnance Survey people in the 1830s to help them map Ireland.  You know build a pile of stones or light a fire and someone shouts: "Hey I can see our house from here."

My dear Grandmother use to tell us small children that when you climb up to see the pile of stones that she called : "The Stone Man" and look down at the two bays: Dunmanus and Bantry.  "You should always place a new stone on the pile.  If you do you put a stone on the top you will always come back."  

We must have heeded her advice because we ended up emigrating over here nearly twenty years a go.  My dad left here in the "Black Fifties".  He was only 17.  

You can literally see for miles and miles up there.   Facing North, there's the full thirty miles of Bantry Bay.  This is one of the deepest natural harbours in the world.  You can a see Dursey island and Beara Peninsula with its famous Hungry Hill and Sugar Loaf mountains.  

You can also see Whiddy Island and Glengariff  and Bantry.  Turning South you can see Durrus, Dunmanus Bay and Mount Gabriel over on Mizen peninsula.  The words of The Who song start playing in my mental jukebox:

"I can see for miles and miles".

I have great memories of walking up there with my dad when I was fifteen and he would have been middle aged, a bit younger than me I suppose..? We walked to Durrus  and visited my grandparents graves and we sat outside a pub and my dad had a pint of Guinness and I had half a pint of Murphy's: brewed in Cork of course.  Well I was only fifteen.

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  1. Lovely memories Dave. I know you sometimes long for pubs, kebab houses and the bustle of the life you once knew but always remind yourself that you live in a beautiful corner of the planet with many natural advantages and the songs of history riding on the breeze.

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  4. Perhaps those cairns are both those things. The OS men could have built their stone piles on top of the Celtic burial sites. "Hey, here's a big lump on the ground. Chuck these rocks on top to make it a bit higher and that'll do".

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  5. Good thinking JayCee. A lot of buildings are built on the foundations or footprints of older buildings. There are plenty of cowboys in West Cork even Shepherds😀.

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  6. Great history, great memories. What a wonderful view up there . Enough peaceful scenery to fill soul

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  8. Ha! In my part of West Wales they built stone structures on top of hills, one to be seen by the next, to form a chain designed to keep us Welsh peasants up in the hills!! I'm talking about Norman invaders, castles and the Lansker line (invisible, but very really to those of us who were born north of it.)

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  9. Evening the veg artist. Thanks for that information. The Vikings, Norman's Irish and English had a big say on the stone structures and ownership of land here in Ireland. I Googled the Lansker line. That's more of a language line isn't it? Thanks.

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    1. Yes. Going back 50/60 years plus, most homes north of the line were Welsh speaking. I was taught English to go to school. It's the area south of the line that is known as 'little England beyond Wales' because people there all spoke English. We Welsh had been pushed up into the hills!

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