Garavogue in Sligo. Abbeyquarter Stone Circle.

Garavogue in Sligo. Abbeyquarter Stone Circle.
Shown here in Sligo is Calry Church of Ireland across the River Garavogue over the John Fallon Bridge and Weir. Calry Church is 200 years old in 2024.
Sligo County Council and along by the riverside and onwards to the Abbeyquarter.
The Abbeyquarter stone circle is one of the most unusual monuments in County Sligo, or indeed anywhere in Ireland. It is known locally as the Garavogue Fairy Fort. The circle of 44 boulders lie in a 23 metre (75 feet) diameter and stands on a knoll overlooking the River Garavogue.
In the townland of Abbeyquarter North, the historic site can be found at a roundabout or traffic circle.
The houses were built in the 1940s. The religious statues were erected under the Holy Year scheme 1950 under the Roman Catholic church.
The boulders surrounding the site are in fact a simple passage tomb, dating back almost 6000 years similar to Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery.
The murals depicts Cathach of St. Columba, known as the Cathach is a late 6th century Insular psalter. It is the oldest surviving manuscript in Ireland, and the second oldest Latin psalter in the world. Cathach of St. Columba, known as the Cathach (meaning "the Battler"),[1] is a late 6th century Insular psalter.
St Columba or Colmcille (7 December 521 - 9 June 597 AD) from Gartan, County Donegal was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political institution in the region for centuries. He is the patron saint of Derry. He was highly regarded by both the Gaels of Dál Riata and the Picts.
Briefly around 560 Columba became involved in a quarrel with Finnian of Moville of Movilla Abbey over a psalter. Columba copied the manuscript at the scriptorium under Finnian, intending to keep the copy. Finnian disputed his right to keep it. There is a suggestion that this conflict resulted in the Battle of Cúl Dreimhne in Cairbre Drom Cliabh now in County Sligo. Hence the exile to Iona.
Nearby is the River Garavogue which links Lough Gill to sea level in Sligo. Lough Gill or the Lake straddles County Sligo and County Leitrim.
Sligo is Sligeach in the Irish language is a name meaning 'abounding in shells'. The River Garvoge is in Irish: An Gharbhóg or the 'little torrent' and Lough Gill is Loch Gile which is Irish Gaelic meaning 'bright or white lake'. Lough Gill provides the setting for William Butler Yeats' poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree".
Also seen in the rain is Doorly Park and Cleveragh in Sligo. The water level was high with the rainfall.
Cycling around Lough Gill.
Lough Gill has a 16 mile (25 km) route to Cycle around which links clockwise from Sligo on the northern shore to Hazelwood, Parkes Castle, Dromahair. From Dromahair still going clockwise on the southern shore, Slish Wood, Dooney Rock, Tobernalt, Doorly Park to Sligo. The North West Trail which is part of the National Cycle Network (NCN) is on southern shore of Lough Gill. The North West Trail The route enjoys dramatic views of the Atlantic Ocean passing through rural villages as well as the provincial towns of Enniskillen, Sligo, Donegal, Lifford, Strabane and Omagh. It covers County Sligo, County Leitrim and County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland with Derry and Strabane District Council and Omagh and Fermanagh District Council.
My video was made on Saturday 15th of July in the year of our Lord 2023.
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