Are you interested in unsolved mysteries?
This very short video clip shows a rock feature that I came across some time ago while walking the Cork coast. It’s a vertical rock face about 3 metres high and 10 metres across. Dotted across its surface are large holes, so that it resembles a gigantic block of Swiss cheese.
I have no idea how these holes were formed. It is likely that this rock face was a horizontal sea bed some 350 million years ago and that it was impacted somehow by many pillow sized boulders. Evidence of these boulders is everywhere in this particular area. Was it a volcano? A tsunami? Or something far more mundane? Your guess is as good as mine.
I’m happy to show you this place, if you have a head for heights.
It’s obvious, innit? They’re the footprints of aliens who came to Earth millions of years ago to help prepare the planet for the emergence of man. What you need to do now is write a book along those lines, get on the Late Late Show to plug it, and you’ll become the new Erich von Daniken.
I’ve always thought – if you ever want to avoid making any real money whatsoever, become a sceptic.
We may have an answer. It seems that rock formation has been created from large nodules, not unlike flint nodules that you sometimes see embedded in chalk rock. These nodules are far bigger. As the rock wall is eroded away by the sea and the weather, the nodules fall out, leaving these grooves. Pretty cool if true.
If you like strange rock formations on the cork coast then paddle a kilometre or so along the coast from ringabella beach (near fountainstown ) and check out the organ pipe formation; also at Barry’s head (south of Nohoval) check out the spectacular bends and folds in th rock
I’d love to see this! Thanks.