Graigue Standing Stone

To be honest I was on my way to another site when I came across Graigue.
Having seen images of this standing stone I had always thought the site was far from the beaten track.    

This giant of a stone has split into two.
The larger of the slabs remains upright with the smaller one now at a forty five degree angle (resting on two large stones).
The upright stone is over 3.5 meters in height and over 2.5 meters in width.
The smaller slab is 3 meters in height and over 2 meters in width.

Access - The stone can be seen very clearly from the road, it is in a field just before you reach the quarry. Parking will be a problem as the road is very narrow, to get up close to the stone you will have to climb a bank (small) and hop over a fence.


  

Knocknakilla Standing Stone

Knocknakilla Standing Stone can be found very close to the more well known and famous Knocknakilla Stone Circle.

The standing stone sits high in a field with good views all round.
The Stone is over 1.5 meters in height and has a very distinct rectangular shape.

To see the standing stone from the road you  need to be travelling north towards Glantane/Millstreet.
If you are coming from the other direction the stone will not be visible.

Access - from the road you walk up a drive way,  this leads you into the field that the stone is in.

This site is well worth checking out along with the many other more well known sites close by.

Scrahanard Wedge Tomb

This wedge tomb and standing stone (with a grass covered cairn), can be found in a field which is marked by a sign as a Dolmen.
The tomb is also known as The Bealik.  The large capstone is over two metres in length and about two metes in width.
This wedge tomb is listed as a national monument, so it would be nice if the site got a clean up ( that it deserves) before the tomb is totally overgrown by the hedge.

Cuchulains Stone

This really impressive stone stands alone on a slight rise in a large field. Standing at over three metres high and close to one and a half metres wide, this up close has a big wow factor. Some idiot has carved his name into the bottom of the stone  but it takes nothing away from this great site.
When i arrived at this site and started to make my way across the field i could not help but notice a lone raven atop of the stone (with about twenty flying around) very spooky.
Which probably had somthing to do with the below being fresh in my mind,
The History
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cuch/lgc23.htm