stone circles around east kilmallock cappamore

While all of the Lough Gur area is a must-see for anyone interested in Ireland’s pre-historic past the Lios is possibly the cream of the lot. It is a megalithic stone circle of about 150 feet in diameter built inside a wide bank of earth, apparently dating from 2000 - 1800 BC. The atmosphere is added to by its now being overgrown and containing trees. Leading up to the ring from the east is a paved path with ordered up right stones to either side. The site appears to have been neither inhabited...