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Cairn T (Passage Grave) — Images (click to view fullsize)

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8th July 2007ce

Cairn R1 (Cairn(s)) — Images

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5th February 2007ce

Cairn T (Passage Grave) — Images

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27th December 2006ce

Cairn S (Passage Grave) — Images

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5th December 2006ce

Cairn T (Passage Grave) — Folklore

[This] was told me in the summer of 1894: I was in Meath and went to see the remarkable chambered cairns on the hill known as Sliabh na Caillighe, 'the Hag's Mountain,' near Oldcastle and Lough Crew. I had as my guide a young shepherd whom I picked up on the way. He knew all about the hag after whom the hill was called except her name: she was, he said, a giantess, and so she brought there, in three apronfuls, the stones forming the three principal cairns. As to the cairn on the hill point known as Belrath, that is called the Chair Cairn from a big stone placed there by the hag to serve as her seat when she wished to have a quiet look on the country round. But usually she was to be seen riding on a wonderful pony she had: that creature was so nimble and strong that it used to take the hag at a leap from one hill-top to another. However, the end of it all was that the hag rode so hard that the pony fell down, and that both horse and rider were killed.
From Celtic Folklore
Welsh And Manx
by John Rhys
[1901]

online at http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/cfwm/cf200.htm
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
29th November 2006ce

Cairn T (Passage Grave) — Images

<b>Cairn T</b>Posted by CianMcLiam<b>Cairn T</b>Posted by CianMcLiam CianMcLiam Posted by CianMcLiam
27th November 2006ce

Cairn P2 (Cairn(s)) — Images

<b>Cairn P2</b>Posted by ryaner ryaner Posted by ryaner
22nd October 2006ce

Cairn N (Cairn(s)) — Images

<b>Cairn N</b>Posted by ryaner ryaner Posted by ryaner
22nd October 2006ce
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