Photographs of Ireland from our trip there in April and May of 2007 are at https://www.a-wee-bit-of-ireland.com/eire_2007/. We hope you enjoy the photos. We also have photos from January 2004 and photos from July 2005.
So far as I can guess, the stone in the first group of photos is the stone mentioned in the CISP database. At least it is in the same townland. The OSI Irish Grid reference appears to me to be about Q 022 612 (sheet 71). I was able to get permission to walk across private land right up to the stone, but not this standing stone.
See also. https://www.a-wee-bit-of-ireland.com/eire_2007/slea_head/slea_head_106.html
A Dingle Tourism web page at http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/activities2.html has descriptions of some of the archeological monuments of the Dingle Peninsula.
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For thousands of years, prehistoric societies built monumental grave architecture and erected standing stones in the coastal regions of Europe (4500–2500 calibrated years BC). Our understanding of the rise of these megalithic societies is contentious and patchy; the origin for the emergence of megalithic architecture in various regions has been controversial and debated for over 100 y. The result presented here, based on analyses of 2,410 radiocarbon dates and highly precise chronologies for megalithic sites and related contexts, suggests maritime mobility and intercultural exchange. We argue for the transfer of the megalithic concept over sea routes emanating from northwest France, and for advanced maritime technology and seafaring in the megalithic Age.
There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of megaliths in Europe. The conventional view from the late 19th and early 20th centuries was of a single-source diffusion of megaliths in Europe from the Near East through the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast. Following early radiocarbon dating in the 1970s, an alternative hypothesis arose of regional independent developments in Europe. This model has dominated megalith research until today. We applied a Bayesian statistical approach to 2,410 currently available radiocarbon results from megalithic, partly premegalithic, and contemporaneous nonmegalithic contexts in Europe to resolve this long-standing debate. The radiocarbon results suggest that megalithic graves emerged within a brief time interval of 200 y to 300 y in the second half of the fifth millennium calibrated years BC in northwest France, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic coast of Iberia. We found decisive support for the spread of megaliths along the sea route in three main phases. Thus, a maritime diffusion model is the most likely explanation of their expansion.
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