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GREYSTONES ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL VOLUME 9

The outlier occurs downslope of the site and is a large glacial
erratic (1.95m high, circa 2.90m wide). While it is a natural
feature there is no reason to believe that it did not form an
integral part of the site. Running across the top of the stone at
right-angles are two well-defined grooves and a similar curved
groove occurs on what was the top of a prostrate (lying flat) stone
on the south-east side of the circle. It is clear that these are not
entirely natural. Evidence of the effort put into the destruction of
the site occurs in the form of deep wedge marks across the upper
surface of two of the stones.

Castleruddery Lower Ceremonial circle

The location of the Castleruddery Lower ceremonial circle
site can be found at:

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/youtube/o1i2xzbgWN
4/castleruddery_lower_stone_circle.htm.

Conceptual reconstruction of the ceremonial circle at Castleruddery
(Annaba Kilfeather)

The site consists of an inner circle which was originally a
contiguous circle (diameter 30m) of large boulders some
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