Comparing stone star map with Loughcrew site map.

At the righthand side is my creation of the stone and the design on it. I have shortened the rays issuing from the star circles as the longer rays did not seem to serve any practicle purpose .The ancient Artist had allready made his point that larger rays meant larger stars. I also cleaned out the centre of the star circles being careful not to interfere with the basic design created by the ancient  Artist. My reason for cleaning up the design was to make it neater  for comparison purposes later. The next task was to turn the stone on to a righthanded horizontal position. Just below at the right is the sketched stone after I had laid it on a righthanded horizontal position. I have also drawn a red line through the centre of the two large stars. Nobody is sure what the original positions of those inscribed stones is supposed to be.The original position of this stone is just as likely to have been horizontal as vertical.

I decided at this stage that it was time to remove the group of stars from their rock background and then to increase the groups overall size by a hundred percent. The result of those changes can be seen on the star map below.

This is a real star map with its two large stars,a medium star and a small star. I have drawn the usual red reference line through the centre of the two large stars. I have also given the rayed object a red colour.

I have been  intamating for some time that the primary purpose of creating the star map was for comparison purposes ,at last the star map at the top is completed and is ready to compare with the site map of the Peaks of Loughcrew below it. Even the most biased observer would have to admit to the positive resemblance in the positioning of the STARS and the PEAKS. The odds against the site map duplicating the star map by pure chance must be a million to one. There are two large stars running in line which compare very well with the two large Peaks also running in line. There is a small star below the red line in the star map and is practicly in the same position as the small Peak in the site map. The medium star above the red line in the star map compares very nicely with the medium Peak from the site map. They rayed object from the star map and coloured red compares positionly well with the MOAT from the site map which is also coloured red. Very little is known about the existence of the MOAT although it was discovered in 1898. It was only very recently that I found out about the MOAT which allowed me to complete the duplication of the star map to the Loughcrew site map.