Salachary Stone Row (Bealach Mor; The Great Beeches)

All pictures copyright © 1999 Martin McCarthy

Looking southwest. Large Image (32kb 398x568) Looking southwest. Large Image (71kb 790x612) Looking northeast. Large Image (36kb 454x578) Looking northeast. Large Image (57kb 528x740) Looking northeast; the leaning stone and the falled, buried stone. Large Image (96kb 840x525) A long view to the northeast. The stone row can be seen in the centre of the picture. Large Image (37kb 577x299) Looking north. Large Image (47kb 418x592) Looking north. Large Image (73kb 584x768) Looking east. The fallen stone lies under the snow immediately to the Large Image (46kb 608x374) Looking southeast. Large Image (68kb 595x453) A longer view to the southeast. The fallen stone can just be seen lying to the right of the leaning stone. Large Image (69kb 583x395) Looking southeast. Large Image (87kb 777x520)

Salachary is a few miles north of Kilmartin. In a glen amongst the hills is a row of three megaliths running north to south. One of the stones is still upright, one leans and is almost prostrate, the third is fallen and bedded into the turf but still visible (when not covered in snow!). The northerly standing stone is nearly three metres tall, the central leaning stone is a little over three metres tall, and the southerly prostrate stone would have stood about three and a half metres tall. On my second visit to the site (this time during the rain rather than the snow) the turf had been cleared around the fallen stone, showing it's edge.