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A magnificent complex of temples are located at Drombeg – the name means small ridge or hilltop although it is also called the Druid’s Altar, but then so are many ancient monuments. It is located in west Cork, you go from Clonakilty on the N71 to Ross Carbury and then take the R597 for 4km and you’ll see the sign to the complex. As you arrive you see the sign below. Five minutes of a walk and you are back in the late bronze age…it is one of the most visited sites in Ireland.
 
There are 17 stones in the main circle, which is almost 30 foot wide. The big flat topped alter stone has 2 cup marks ground into it. Each of the standing stones is guiding your eyes and energy to this flat stone and from there to the horizon – this is where the Sun sets on the winter sun standing.
 
Drombeg Stone Circle Complex

Two other monuments making this site into a complex can be found nearby - shown in the image above in the middle distance. This is brought up close in the image below and again in a later picture.
 
Close up of Drombeg Complex

The stones on the upper left in the image above have been mistakenly referred to as fulacht fiadh or ancient cooking place. It is in fact a Teach Allais or sweathouse. See Issue 2 of Seanda at http://www.nra.ie/Archaeology/Seanda-NRAArchaeologyMagazine/file,11163,en.pdf for archaeological understanding of Bronze Age sweathouses in Ireland. The other double ring of stonewalls is built over an older monument and may have been the rooms for resting / preparation / shelter.
 
Drombeg Winter Solstice Alignment

The cremated remains of a young person were found wrapped with thick cloth inside a clay pot during the excavations in 1958. This was found in the centre of the big stone circle. Many pieces of broken pots and four pieces of shale accompanied by the burnt remains from a wood fire were also found near the pot.
 
Drombeg hot stone pit inside the sweathouse

Carbon dating from the site suggests dates of c. 945 - 830 BC, but this method has been shown as inaccurate and compensation for ambient carbon has in some cases added up to 1000 years to dates.
 
Drombeg from the North

When I stand by this magical place I see the thatched roof over the stone walls on the high ground and the skins over a ash framed sweat house to its south. The avenue from here to the main circle is lined with healing herbs and quartz rocks. The main altar stone has a covering and a couple intimately embracing. This is the most sensitive part of the temple - the sexual imagery of the male reproduction organ is to been seen in the layout design. When the Sun sets on the eve of the shortest day the rays of light shoot up between the two stone houses, up the shaft or passageway and to the release in the big circle. This must have been incredible.

This ancient temple complex of our magical ancestors survived the constant destruction of monuments that the Catholic church busied itself with for over 1500 years. How many did they destroy? How many had the layout using the sexual imagery as shared above? Is this why they wanted to destroy our temples? This is deliberate abuse of our indigenous culture and heritage by a foreign church. There are many beautiful temples in Ireland and Drombeg is one of my all time favorites.

Con April 2010