Ireland's Legends
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The History of Ireland, Commencing with its Earliest Period 1843
The ruinous remains of a circular temple near Dundalk, formed a part, it is supposed of a great work like that of Stonehenge, being open, as we are told to the east, and composed of simular circles of stone within. One of the old English traditions respecting Stonehenge is, that the stones were transported thither from Ireland, having been brought to the latter country by giants from the extremities of Africa; and in the time of Giraldus Cambrensis there was still to be seen, as he tells, on the plain of Kildare, an immense monument of stones corresponding exactly in appearance and contruction with that of Stonehenge.
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