Built Foresights

• Bawngare :
  Boulder-Burial to
  Standing Stone
• Coolcoulaghta :
  Boulder-Burial to
  Cairn
• Coolcraheen :
  Standing Stone to
  Standing Stone
• Cullomane East :
  Boulder-Burial to
  Cairn
• Cullomane East :
  Five Stone Circle to
  Standing Stone
• Cullomane West :
  Standing Stone to
  Standing Stone
• Currakeal :
  Boulder-Burial to
  Stone Row
• Farranfadda :
  Standing Stone to
  Cairn
• Kilmore :
  Boulder-Burials to
  Cairn
• Knocks:
  Boulder-Burials to
  Standing Stone
• Moyny Lower :
  Standing Stone to
  Standing Stone
• Murrahin North :
  Stone Row to
  Stone Row

Sometimes one monument is visible on the skyline from another. This does not happen often and all instances have been checked. So far the ones occupying astronomically significant positions have been Standing Stones, Cairns and, interestingly, Stone Rows.

There is one case of a nearby Standing Stone being a visual target from a Stone Circle. Other than that, Standing Stones as foresights have either other Standing Stones or Boulder-Burials as the backsight and are some considerable distance from them.

The cairns referred to here are large and on high ground. Every one examined to date is a significant target from a Boulder-Burial or, in one case, a Standing Stone near a Boulder-Burial. Some of the cairns also occupy significant positions when seen from other monuments but there is no pattern to these relationships and these would seem to be secondary re-use of an existing landmark.

Seemingly incidental occurrances are:

• The Standing Stone at Cullomane East that is a visual target from a Stone Circle is also on the horizon in non-significant positions from three other nearby sites:
  • a Boulder-Burial
  • a Standing Stone / Pair and
  • an Anomalous Stone Group
  
  
  
• Foherlagh Stone Pair is on the horizon from two sites:
  • From Lisheen Lower Boulder-Burial it is to the north-east with a declination of +32.4°
  • From Lissaclarig Stone Row it is to the south-east with a declination of -16.8°
  
  
  
• Reenascreena Stone Circle is on the south-west horizon at a declination of -33.6° from Carrigagrenane Stone Circle.
  
  
• Knockatlowig Stone Row has Standing Stone CO122-113 on the eastern horizon with a declination of -2.73°.