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From Wales to Scotland, to Ireland:
April-May 2019:

In 2019 I set off from my home in North Wales, UK, first stopping at Betws-y-Coed as I had done in 2016.

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I then headed, not immediately for Scotland, but to Sheffield to visit family, first camping in some woods overlooking Bamford Reservoir.

It was a tough four days getting to Sheffield as there was something of a heatwave, and hills to climb. Then on to Scotland.

On this trip I immediately headed west, paying a visit to Cairnholy.

Then a ferry crossing to Northern Ireland before travelling round the coast there, with more "wild camping".

I found my way to the Beltany Stone Circle.

Down the west coast I came across Creevykeel:

This is one of the finest Court Cairns in Ireland, Built in the 3rd millennium B.C., it consists of a wedge-shaped mound, with a burial chamber opening off the open central court. Near the narrow end of the mound are two further graves (Passage Graves?). In the Early Christina period iron was smelted in the central court.

I find this site to be very similar to the Trefignath "Burial Chamber" at Holyhead. From the diagram copied from Wikipedia, "Chamber 3" has a similar representation at Trefignath.

There is a large stone finely placed/balanced on very small points of which my photograph does little justice:

I made my way down the west coast of Ireland as far as Galway, then headed across country to Dublin to catch a ferry to Holyhead.