Public tour of Belfast's own internationally famous ancient monument. A Time Quest and Hidden Treasures event of the Belfast Festival at Queen's. Guide will be Barrie Hartwell. Meet at the Giant's Ring carpark at 12 noon. After the tour patrons will be left to make their own way to the Ulster Museum, where there will be an illustrated talk by Barrie on the Giant's Ring and other monuments in the area.
Event is free.
Co Down, at 10.50am on Sunday 11 June ready to embark on the Society's first outing of 2000. Fortune favoured the brave, the rain kept away and the day was very pleasant. Richard Warner and David Erwin were the guides, Richard pointing out sites of archaeological significance and telling us stories about them while David kept us informed on the natural history of the lough. We cruised along by the Quoile estuary and were shown sites associated with St Patrick, including his reputed landing place on his return to Ireland. On the way up the lough we were introducted to unfamiliar areas of archaeological interest on both shores and observed a few familiar sites from an unfamiliar viewpoint.