I made this photograph of an #alignment of #Megalithic monuments, a stone circle, a passage tomb, and the grave of Queen #Maeve atop #Knocknarea seen from #Carrowmore, #Sligo, IE, on April 25, 2007 using old technology, a Canon PowerShot A710 IS. Today, I used #gimp 3 to convert it to black and white using different settings than last time I posted it.

A story about Queen Maeve is at: https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T301012/index.html

#dolmen #faerytale #megalith #monument #carrowmore #sligo #Ireland

View from Queen Medb's grave over the Knocknarea passage tomb landscape.

Sligo's ancient hills
tell the legends of the tombs
strung like pearls

(Yesterday's) #DailyHaikuPrompt - hills

#Sligo #TravelThursday #Neolithic #Knocknarea #Mastodaoine #Ireland

The way back down from Knocknarea

#FootpathFriday #Knocknarea #Sligo #Mastodaoine #Ireland #QueenMaeve #Walking #LandscapePhotography

Smaller grave next to Queen Maeve on the top of #Knocknarea

#StandingStoneSunday #Sligo #Mastodaoine
#LandscapePhotography #Megalithic

Today it is exactly 5 years since I climbed Knocknarea in County Sligo, home to Queen Maeve's Cairn, or Miosgán Meadhbha.

It was one of those red letter days - driving up the Wild Atlantic way, often partly enveloped in fog. Someone recommended I visit Knocknarea. And the day was special - damp and solitary. I had just been divorced, and struggled with a lot of things, finding myself free after many, many years of abuse. I trace the moment I changed to that climb - I went up the mountain one person, and came down another.

It is a special place.

#knocknarea #Ireland #sligo #lifechanging #cairn #Maeve