The Giant's Ring

The Giant's Ring is a mysterious site reckoned to be 4000 years old. It has a circular earthwork embankment with a bouldered structure in the centre which could have been an important meeting/ritual place for Neolithic man.

THE GIANT'S RING by David H.Harkness

Outside Belfast gaunt and gray------------------------------ A Giant's Ring not far away -------------------------------- Resides amongst the trees. --------------------------------- Do great Chieftains lay beneath ---------------------------- The dolman stones upon the heath --------------------------- Where calves and heifers play? ----------------------------- Surely this a noble place ---------------------------------- Is where Cuchulainn is encased ----------------------------- Beneath the standing stones. ------------------------------- The grass grows high around the stones --------------------- It's nourished by the warriors bones ----------------------- That lie beneath the sod. ---------------------------------- What other mysteries do they hold -------------------------- Or truths that long have gone untold ----------------------- Perhaps we'll never know. ---------------------------------- It's here amongst the weathered stones --------------------- Surrounded by the warriors' bones -------------------------- I dream of Ulster's past. ----------------------------------