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Slieve-na-Calliagh Passage Chamber,
Cairn T Info & Photo Gallery |
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Name: Cairn T, Slieve-na-Calliagh
: LoughCrew Megalithic Tomb Cemetary
Location: At
the summit Carnbane East of the Slieve-na-Calliagh mountain range, Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Ireland.
Access: By
road to car park about half way up Slieve-na-Calliagh mountain from there a 15
minute climb to the summit, with seats to rest as you climb. Is a good firm
path. It is a popular place so dont expect to be alone here. There is a local cafe and shop for refreshments.
Description:
A Passage Tomb covered in a stone cairn with
many decorated stones in it's interior chambers, is surrounded by a number of
smaller sites, which also include decorated stones. Since these photos where taken, one of the main lintel slabs at the entrance way has cracked and is being supported with a building jack.
Traditional
Lore: These hills and the tombs themselves are together known as Slieve na Calliagh or Sliabh na Caillí, meaning "mountain of the Cailleach", the divine hag of Irish mythology.
Legend has it that the monuments were created when a giant hag, striding across the land, dropped her cargo of large stones from her apron.
Information:
The Loughcrew Megalithic Cemetary includes all of the sites over the Slieve-na-Calliagh mountain comprising the hilltops of: Carnbane East, Carnbane West, Carrickbrack and Patrickstown, and includes 26 megalithic sites in all, comprising Passage Tombs, Barrow's, Standing Stones, Court Tombs, Celtic Cross and Cairns.
This page show mainly the main Passage Tomb or Cairn T, at the peak of Carbane West of the Slieve-na-Calliagh mountain. The interior consists of an entrance way
with decorated stones either side, which leads to a central chamber with 3
smaller chamber leading off the central one. Nearly all of the side chambers have
decorated stones, with the back chamber having a decorated roof stone.
There is so much to see at this location you can spend days, so many different carving and decorations, on so many stones in the Passage Chamber and on the multitude of sites around the Passage Chamber. What a fantastic place to be doing magic mushrooms in, which was the main use of these chambers, these are not burial tombs. Slieve-na-Calliagh, like many of the mountains of Eire, is covered in Liberty caps during the fungi season, this was the main reason these sites where built at these locations. These site are built in such a way as to block out all background radiation from the universe and are the ideal meditation chambers.
Measurements and Info: Dated to 4000 bc, The orthostats and structural stones of the monuments tend to be from local green gritstone, which was soft enough to carve.
In 1980 Irish-American researcher Martin Brennan discovered that Cairn T in Carnbane East is directed to receive the beams of the rising sun on the spring and autumnal equinox - the light shining down the passage and illuminating the art on the backstone
Lat. : 53 44.6'N Long.
: 07 06.8' W
Other Sites close by: Slieve-na-Calliage
Court Tombs Site1,
Site2,
Site3,  Corstown Celtic Cross Mullagh Standing Stones Carnbane Megalithic Sites Ballynamona Standing Stone Slieve-na-Calliage Standing Standing Stone Slieve-na-Calliage Celtic Cross Drumlerry Standing Stones Beolies Standing Stone Ballinvally Standing Stones Ballinvally Stone Circle Summerbank Cairn Drumsawry Cairn Knockmacoony Cairn
Mythology:
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Last Updated -
April 3, 2023
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