BRIDOL is the British Sundial Society's Register of Fixed and Mass Dials, which gives detail and photographs of about 8000 fixed sundials and 3000 mass dials in the UK.
Some of these are in private gardens, but the majority are publicly available.
The sundial Árthách Dana (The Daring Vessel) was designed by Holger C Lönze and is said to be the largest sundial in Ireland. It is a monument to seafaring and navigation in prehistoric times, and a tribute to Amergin and the seafarers from Northern Spain, who brought the Gaelic language to Ireland.
It is in the form of a large beach-like semicircle. Bronze hour lines are marked with Roman numerals, and 10-minute divisions are marked by white joints in an outer black tile ring. The repoussé bronze gnomon is 6.4 m high, and takes the form of the emerging prow of a boat breaking upwards through the Atlantic waves. It is delineated to show Greenwich solar time, Waterville being 10 degrees (40 minutes) west of Greenwich.
Ref: Designer’s website www.holgerlonze.info/waterville
Ref: www.sundials-ireland.com
2019
Árthách Dana, Ring of Kerry, Waterville, Kerry
SRN
Year
Recorded
Coords
S8230
2019
2020
51.82581, -10.17222 N 51° 49' 32.9", W 10° 10' 20.0"
