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What are these ?

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  • 26-02-2015 3:34pm
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    ronoc101
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭


    Hopefully someone here will know. From walking in the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains I've come across lots of these and I'm curious to know what they are.

    google.ie/maps/place/53%C2%B012'30.2%22N+6%C2%B024'35.6%22W/@53.2084175,-6.40988,457m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0

    Basically they are located alongside rough paths and consist of a mound or two about 2 meters high with excavated hole beside/between them.

    Anyone any ideas ?

    Cheers.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,464 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Hmm, can't say I've really ever noticed them myself to be honest, and I've been wandering the Wicklow Hills for years, but it looks from the Google imagery as if they're located on a few sides of the perimeter of Butter Mountain there at regular intervals of about 100m. They're also very consistent, like you say always two mounds with a hole in between.

    If you look at the aerial imagery on the OSi website, one thing that strikes me is that while they are present on the 2005 imagery, they're not there on the 2000 imagery, so whatever they are they're fairly modern.

    Strange indeed!


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    ronoc101
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭ronoc101


    Actually, now that I think about it I don't know if I've seen them elsewhere or just around Butter Mountain as I'm up there a good bit. Could they be some form of geological assessment I wonder.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,464 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    You may be on to something there as there were plans to build a wind farm on Butter Mountain that was very recently (2013) defeated. I suppose the survey could have been done a good while before that though.


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