Tag: standing stone
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Visiting a dolmen
Day is muggy, has us both sulky Pasty Irishers not made for sun Kissing your poisoned lips at the megalith Enormous light-eclipsing capstone Sits strangely angled, how was it lifted into place in ancient day I imagine cow-tramped trails, movable log ramps along which longstones travelled Burnt offerings and the bones of chieftains interned within…
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The Bullaun
Final week in July but inside the church a chill winters the air. Father Herlihy’s sermon always runs long on Sundays. Never less than four but sometimes five hours long. He would write all night of a Saturday, crafting righteous tracts of comical dimension, designed to forestall what it was that his congregation got up…
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