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Cemetery on Sweet Hollow Road
Melville, New York

West Hills Spring,
West Hills County Park,
Melville, New York

West Face of Cross Pillar, Station 2, Straid, Turas Colmcille,
Glencolmcille, Donegal, Republic of Ireland

Glencolumbkille, Donegal, Ireland
In England, the theories of ley lines are quite popular, but you never really hear them applied in Ireland. A ley is an alignment of ancient sites, laid out in a straight line. Often Christian sites are included, as in the early days of Christianity, pagan sites were built upon to co-opt the ancient religions, to make the new more palatable. St. Columba was one of the three patron saints of Ireland, living around 500 A.D. and born in the area. The area had been a pagan center for 2-3,000 years before it, and his followers settled here. As a result, there are perhaps more pagan and early Christian sites in the area than anywhere else in Ireland. The standing stone in the foreground was Christianized very early on, and if you follow that to the much later Christian church, and beyond that to the notched mountain, you find a very convenient, if in all probability bogus ley. There is no evidence that leys even exist in reality, quite possibly accidents of nature or easily explained coincidence. The true value of leys are in the ability to make the viewer think and wonder. And in that, Glencolumbkille is second to none.

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