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Bruff is a town in
east County Limerick, in the beautiful Golden Vale and Lough Gur
District. The Morning Star river meanders through the town - flowing
under two bridges on its way. The town has a number of superb
restaurants and traditional Irish pubs where you can mingle and
converse freely with the friendly locals.
The world renowned archaeological site and visitor centre at Lough
Gur is located only 4km from Bruff and is open from May to
September. The centre tells the story of the first arrivals of the
Celts through interpretative panels and audio visual means, and
guided tours are run once a week through song and story telling of
the crannogs, church sites, megalithic tombs, stone circles and ring
forts. The centre displays copies of relics that have been retrieved
from the lake and its surrounds during excavation. Lough Gur is
C-shaped and the rock peninsula of Knockadoon is set within the arms
of the C.
The Grange stone circle at Lough Gur is the largest and finest in
Ireland. Almost certainly a religious site, it had been built by
2100BC, by Bronze Age people living around the lake. It consists of
an accurately set out ring of standing stones, some of which are
more than eight feet high. According to the information board
located by the stone circle, there are 123 standing stones in total.
These stones are set upright in sockets and surrounded by a man-made
bank of earth, turf, and small stones. The interior has an
artificial floor of gravelly earth about 70cms above the original
ground level. On midsummer's morning as the sun rises, the narrow
rays of light shine directly through the narrow entrance passageway
and into the centre of the circle
Bruff town is ideally located for day touring the South of Ireland
with its great beauty, history and wealth of visitor attractions and
entertainment. |
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