The ancient stones of Beaghmore, the night sky and giant trolls
By Niall McCrackenIt might seem unlikely, but a visit to an ancient Neolithic site in the County Tyrone countryside can evolve into a journey through time and space.
Just a couple of miles away on the outskirts of Cookstown, a state-of-the-art observatory has been built in Davagh Forest.'The Milky Way shines at you' "Thousands of years ago our ancestors came up here at night to look at the stars, and now we're recreating that."The Beaghmore Stone Circles are located at the foot of the Sperrin mountains
Ogham is an ancient Irish alphabet, represented by a series of marks on stones and it is the earliest written source of the Irish Language, dating back to the 4th Century AD. Hugh McCloy said: "The exact purpose of the stones might remain a mystery but they definitely point to an ancient people that understood astronomy.
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