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A planned two day mountain hike up in Dingle w/ a friend got postponed. So I took off on the bike facing into a warm westerly headwind all the way out to Ballyrisode for a high tide swim via the Altar Wedge Tomb. A nice slow mooch. #WestCork#Ballydehob#Ballyrisode#Altar#WedgeTomb#Megalithic

Screenshot: Map showing route out and back from Ballydehob to Ballyrisode. A 42.6 kilometre trip which at times followed the Euro Velo 1 cycling route, alternates and the main road. Two hours and forty one minutes moving time.
Seen from the back, the famous megalithic Altar Wedge Tomb near Toormore, West Cork. This is a popular stop off point along the Mizen Peninsula in all weather. The tomb aligns with the peak at Mizen Head about twelve kilometres away. A peak that was ‘handmade’ into the point we see today.
My bike with panniers parked on the grass in the foreground, with a couple of cars and a red camper van in the carpark at the Altar Wedge Tomb. I stopped here mainly for a little break from the headwind. That didn’t work. Those south westerlies were insistent.
Ballyrisode beach looking back east with Mount Gabriel in the distance. A shallow inlet popular with families.
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Ballyrisode beach looking north / north east towards Mt Gabriel, West Cork, this morning. A fleeting moment between the squalls arriving in from the Atlantic. A relief to see some colour pop out after days of greys on our morning walks. #WestCork#Coast#Ireland

Foreground: Milky grey calm waters with a large purple tinged rock fringed with seaweed at the bottom and topped with lichen. Across the other side of the cove the coastline rises behind the rock noted above. Evergreen trees, yellow and reddish shrubs. Further back in the distance to the right a darker purple mound if Mount Gabriel. All beneath a blue grey rain clouded sky.
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Three views of the Fulacht fiadh at Ballyrisode in the dawn light as the tide goes out. First time I noticed it was when friend’s kids were making sandcastles in & around it many moons ago. Archaeological / Bronze Age

Description: On mid-foreshore at low water on S side of Ballyrisode beach/strand (inner beach) to immediate SE of carpark; site would cover at mid to high water. Eroded and well buried, so difficult to assess nature and extent. 2 upright slabs at slight angles to each other facing seaward and may have been a third stone but is now collapsed; 1m to south 3 long slabs enclosing a rectangular box-like stone setting; enclosed on 3 sides and open on side facing seaward. May be an earlier site reused for later burials. Potential fulacht fiadh stone trough or a cist burial.
Description: On mid-foreshore at low water on S side of Ballyrisode beach/strand (inner beach) to immediate SE of carpark; site would cover at mid to high water. Eroded and well buried, so difficult to assess nature and extent. 2 upright slabs at slight angles to each other facing seaward and may have been a third stone but is now collapsed; 1m to south 3 long slabs enclosing a rectangular box-like stone setting; enclosed on 3 sides and open on side facing seaward. May be an earlier site reused for later burials. Potential fulacht fiadh stone trough or a cist burial.
Description: On mid-foreshore at low water on S side of Ballyrisode beach/strand (inner beach) to immediate SE of carpark; site would cover at mid to high water. Eroded and well buried, so difficult to assess nature and extent. 2 upright slabs at slight angles to each other facing seaward and may have been a third stone but is now collapsed; 1m to south 3 long slabs enclosing a rectangular box-like stone setting; enclosed on 3 sides and open on side facing seaward. May be an earlier site reused for later burials. Potential fulacht fiadh stone trough or a cist burial.
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