Mystery Dolmen in France

Going through the many stones pics of the last trip to France, I came across this one - While I noted in my diary 'dolmen les creuse les cotets', I can find no such site through a Google search, map searches (both old fashioned paper and online), or any other rummaging through my notes.  Oh, how frustrating!

 

I was travelling non-stop from Vitrac through Limoges northeast towards Senlis (no small distance).  The force behind the forced marched was that pesky Air-France flight home that just would not wait...

Anyway, through the morning we stopped at several roadside megalithic notations on the map.  Started off with Menhir St Paul du Metayer.  The morning mist was fabulous....

The sheep thought so as well.. They also thought I was crazy taking pics of a stone - which was not even EDIBLE!!

The horses at Dolmen du Pouyol absolutely refused to stay out of any shots - and would let us get no closer.  I thought they were a perfect other-worldly pair so I heeded their message and we moved on...

to Dolmen du Bagnol...THIS I could find on a map once we returned! 

Oh, and this little treasure in someone's back garden...practically across the road from the 'real' thing.  Actually, I don't know if this is a folly or another 'real' thing....

And so back to my mystery dolmen. 

Any hints? ...Anyone?

Megalith hunting - Ireland

Finally back to planning the next stone hunting expedition.  IRELAND!!!  This one should be much easier than the previous trips.  Of course, since I've never been to Ireland, how would I know? 

One thing I do know - there are TONS (tons and tonnes!) of megalithic sites.  Check this out if you've any doubt... and that's only one...Evidently size did matter!

I've been scouring maps (and even more maps) and archaeology books, historical monuments books, celtic myth and faery spirit books...Well, I can't be all dry archaeology all the time - or Katie'd be a dull lass indeed! 

I'm especially  liking both the Red Haired Girl from the Bog and Faery Paths and Spirit Roads by Paul Devereux. 

I've found the Aubrey Burl books and the oxford archaeologic guides indispensible in the past and have no doubt they will serve me well on this trip as well..I've read Michael Dames' Mythic Ireland and the wonderful and beautiful Carleton Jones' book Temples of Stone.

Julian Cope's The Megalithic European book AND his Modern Antiquarian website), oh my!  so much info to sift through...... I just cannot do justice or give credit to all the sites that have stoked the stone fires for me whilst I waited for this opportunity. 

Finally here's a sampling of websites if you've not found them yet. 

newgrange.com),

Megalithic Portal

Shadows and Stone

Stonepages

Three weeks....THREE weeks!  So many sites, so little time.....