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andymcinroy

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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2012 »
and if you want some seriously spooky caves to bivi in, try those on Rathlin. I have been in many of these and there is a deep chill in some of them. They say the human bones are still lying just beneath the cave floors.

Before an alarm could be given the English had landed close to the church which bears Columba's name. The castle was taken by storm, and every soul in it - about two hundred - put to the sword. It was then discovered that the greater part of the fugitives, chiefly mothers and their little ones, were hidden in the caves about the shores. "They were hunted out as if they had been seals or otters, and all destroyed".

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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2012 »
Quote from: andymcinroy on March 29, 2012

They say the human bones are still lying just beneath the cave floors.


 :o :o :o :o
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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2012 »
WOW !!! I know where my hang out will be this summer. I have a house in portrush i rent
so ill be useing it for a base to check out the whole of the cause way. I have done the path
seven times now but never the caves as i was pretty beat after the path and the steep
climbs up and down the coves. There is lots of drif wood about the coves, SPUD ! I agreed
a wild night and camp in a cave is on the cards, ill scout these places in the next month or
so and keep us all up to date, ALAN my miss has a camra so ill be able to post pictures.

BOO !!!! i scared you  ::)
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sjh1

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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2012 »
Andy,

Great posts and information. With regard to a thread I started I think that stretch of coastline could be one of the wildest places in NI. You mentioned, 'from the Shepherd's Path to Dunseverick'. What is the grid reference for the Shepherd's Path?

I will also be checking out the area this ssummer, although I don't like the sound of broken legs and helicopter rescues.

Re. the caves on Rathlin I presume you are discussing the massacre in the 1570s when Walter Devereux attacked the Highland Scots. Wouldn't be surprised if the bones were still to be found. Ironically the episode has been used in Irish nationalist folklore/propaganda despite  the victims being Scottish settlers.
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Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

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andymcinroy

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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2012 »
The grid ref for the top of the Shepherd's path is 952445. This is where the tourist path rises in a series of steps to the top of the cliff.

I believe the extract I quoted refers to the Devereux / Norris / Drake landing and massacre of the MacDonnell clan that were based on Rathlin (Sorley Boy apparently watched from the north coast but was powerless to stop it). Date was 1573 or so.
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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2012 »
Quote from: sjh1 on March 31, 2012
Andy,

Great posts and information. With regard to a thread I started I think that stretch of coastline could be one of the wildest places in NI. You mentioned, 'from the Shepherd's Path to Dunseverick'. What is the grid reference for the Shepherd's Path?

I will also be checking out the area this ssummer, although I don't like the sound of broken legs and helicopter rescues.

Re. the caves on Rathlin I presume you are discussing the massacre in the 1570s when Walter Devereux attacked the Highland Scots. Wouldn't be surprised if the bones were still to be found. Ironically the episode has been used in Irish nationalist folklore/propaganda despite  the victims being Scottish settlers.

That makes two of us, let me know anytime your heading up there. I have a base in portrush to start from  ;D
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sjh1

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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #21 on: April 03, 2012 »
Andy, thanks for Shepherd's Path grid-ref.

Wolf, will let you know when I'm heading up.
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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #22 on: April 03, 2012 »
Anyone fancy doing this over Easter?
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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2012 »
Kayakgirl, I'll let you know when I'm going up. Probably won't be for a month or so now.
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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #24 on: April 10, 2012 »
Cool, keep me posted!
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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2012 »
I was in the cave at dunluce castle (not good for a bivey or a tent) I did not get a chance to do the caves at the Gaints cause way, family Easter stuff was happening. I do plan to find these caves sometime soon i hope. The cave at dunluse castle is a very big cave and very rockey. There is no place for a tent or a beviy, the mouth of the cave looks a great spot to Kayak out from ***BUT NOT FOR BEGINERS*** the sea is very rough, also big rocks after the swells go down. It is worth a look, just be very carefull NI WILDERS and anyone else that go.

Regards wolf AKA Dave
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Re: Giants Causeway
« Reply #26 on: June 18, 2012 »
I got a good map of the Gaints cause way, so ill have to plan a route to take  ;D
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