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The
Great stone circle is located at Grange on the shores of Lough Gur
in county Limerick. The circle is 45.7 meters in diameter and the
Orthostats (standing stones) reach 4 meters in height. Behind and
supporting the Orthostats is an earthen bank almost a metre in width
and just over a metre in height.
The
Great stone circle is the largest in Ireland and is aligned to the
sun. At Dawn on mid summers morning (the summer solstice 21st June,
longest day of the year) the sun rises and shines through the circle
at a certain point.
The
site dates back to the early Bronze age around 2000 B.C.
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