placenamesHollywood
Cillín Chaoimhín
Athgreany, within the wider Hollywood district, preserves a Bronze Age monument with a later story attached to its stones.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cillín Chaoimhín · Irish · main form
- Hollywood · English · main form
Place & story
A circle of granite
The stone circle at Athgreany stands outside Hollywood village. Wicklow County Tourism describes sixteen granite stones and a separate outlying stone, with some boulders reaching about two metres in height. The circle spans roughly twenty-two metres. The county heritage office identifies it as one of the Bronze Age stone circles surviving in west Wicklow. [2] [3]
The piper and the dancers
Archaeologist Chris Corlett records a local tradition that the circle’s stones were dancers transformed into stone while dancing to a piper’s music. Wicklow County Tourism’s version connects their punishment with breaking the Sabbath and identifies the outlying stone with the piper. This is folklore attached to the monument, rather than evidence explaining its prehistoric construction. [3] [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Hollywood. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Athgreany Stone Circle: Piper’s Stones · Wicklow County Tourism
- Ceremonial Monuments, extracted from County Wicklow in Prehistory · Chris Corlett; Wicklow County Heritage Office
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-05-26. How this page was prepared.