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    Place name County Entry Source
    ADDINGHAM Cumberland circle of 250 feet in diameter, and a predominant upright block 15 feet in girth and 18 feet high. Wordsworth pronounces this "family" of Druid Imperial
    BUXTON Derbyshire Druids; and it certainly was known to the Romans. Cromlechs and Druidical circles occur on the heights in its neighbourhood Imperial
    CAHIRLAG Cork ruins of the old parish church; and not far distant are the remains of a pagan judgment seat, druids' circle and altar. Lewis:Ireland
    CODFORD-ST. MARY Wiltshire Circle, supposed to have been formed by Druids for religious rites; and commands a most interesting view. The living is a rectory Imperial
    CORK Cork circles, cromlechs (commonly called Druids' altars), raths or circular mounds of earth, caves, and stone pillars, are numerous, particularly raths Lewis:Ireland
    DREWSTEIGNTON Devon circles, some traces of the Via-Sacra or Druid-way, and an ancient British camp The name Drewsteignton has often Imperial
    DRUID'S CIRCLE Cumberland DRUID'S CIRCLE , a well-preserved Druidical temple, 2 miles E of Keswick, in Cumberland. It crowns a hill commanding Imperial
    Druid's Circle, or Druid Stones Cumberland Druid's Circle , or Druid Stones , W. Cumberland, 2 miles E. of Keswick; 100 ft. in diameter. Bartholomew
    DUBLIN Dublin Druid, near Cabinteely, and others at Killiney, Howth, Mount Venus (in the parish of Cruagh), Glen South-well or the Little Dargle, and Larch hill, which last is within a circle Lewis:Ireland
    KILLARNEY Kerry Druids' Circle, consisting of a circular embankment about 35 feet in diameter, within which is a circle of seven upright Lewis:Ireland
    Largs Ayrshire circle, and large masses of charcoal and portions of bones. ` Taking the latitude of the mound, and the points of the compass where the sun would rise and set on the longest day, this segment-shaped platform, devoted apparently to sacrifice by fire, is found to fill up the remaining interval, and thereby complete the fiery circle of the sun's course, which would be deficient by that space.. Independently of the time of year indicated by this fire agreeing with that of the midsummer fires of the Druids Groome
    LIVERPOOL Lancashire LIVERPOOL , a large seaport town on the S verge of Lancashire; the second for population and for commerce in England Imperial
    MAN, or ISLE of MAN the Isle of Man MAN , or ISLE of MAN, an island, with adjacent islet of Calf of Man and several skerries, in the Irish Imperial
    OLDBURY Wiltshire Circle; it is supposed to have been formed, not for defensive purposes, but by the Druids for religions rites; and it commands Imperial
    Peeblesshire or Tweeddale Peebles Shire Druid circles at Sheriffmuir in Stobo, near Tweedsmuir church, and at Gatehope in Innerleithen. Tombs and tumuli with stone coffins Groome
    REDRUTH Cornwall Druids,-town; " is believed, by less sanguinewriters, not to have originated till after the division of the county into parishes; was for some time called, and is still occasionally called, St. Uny; appears to have been built around a chapel dedicated to that saint; seems to have acquired its present name, by a corruption of Tretrot, signifying "the house on the river's bed; " is situated chiefly on the side of a hill, rising to the altitude of414 feet, amid a dreary tract of country, bare of vegetation and strewn with rubbish, but remarkably rich inmineral produce; consists chiefly Imperial
    Stonehenge Wiltshire circles and 2 ovals, inclosed by a double mound, and with an avenue leading from the NE.; and has been variously supposed to be a Druid Bartholomew
    STONEHENGE Wiltshire circle; enclosed a flat stone 15 feet long, called by some the altar-stone, by others the stone of astronomical observation; and now retains only 6 uprights and the so-called altar-stone. The conflicting opinions respecting the entire relic are well shadowed in Warton's sonnet:- Thou noblest monument of Albion's isle! Whether by Merlin's aid from Scythia's shore To Amber's fatal plain Pendragon bore, Huge frame of giant-hands, the mighty pile, To entomb his Britons slain by Hengist's guile: Or Druid Imperial
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