Ballymeanoch

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Ballymeanoch

Large image(928x718 76k) Large image(960x703 62k) Large image(696x912 74k) Large image(880x582 64k) The two-stone row Large image(26k) The four-stone row Large image(21k) Large image(21k) In the foreground is the cairn, with the two stone rows behind Large image(26k) The two-stone row at sunset Large image(14k) The four-stone row at sunset Large image(8k) Large image(16k) The four-stone row at sunset Large image(16k) The two-stone row Large image(16k) One of the megaliths in the two-stone row at sunset Large image(10k) Alligator's sixth-sense tells him that there are some megaliths in this direction... Large image(40k) The two-stone row Large image(54k)

At Ballymeanoch, in the Kilmartin Valley are two rows of stones. One has two stones---a third stone with a hole pierced through it stood with them until some time in the last one hundred years---and the other has four stones. Together they form part of what was a large megalithic avenue. Within a very small distance of these stones are the remains of a henge monument - now ploughed almost flat - and a burial cairn. A few hundred yards away is the burial cairn of Dunchraigaig and the cup-and-ring marked rocky outcrop at Baluachraig.