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Home > What's New?? Scroll down the page to see the latest updated galleries, click the link in the accompanying text box to visit the selected gallery. The equinox alignment event at Cairn T, Loughcrew. A special gallery of photographs from this wonderful spring sunrise. Click here to view the gallery
Home > The spectacle is over for today, the climb to the hilltop in the freezing darkness has been worth it and the small crowd leaves in good humour. For some, this was their first experience of this piece of stone-age theatre and for others it will be another fine morning to recall of the many. But each year, more and more people gather on this hilltop at the time of equal day and night ensuring that despite the constant weathering and ruination of these magnificent temples, a measure of appreciation and wonderment for these ancient achievements endures over 5,000 years later.
Home > The passage of Cairn T opens almost east, positioned so that it faces the sun and catches its rays shortly after it clears the horizon.
Home > Half an hour after sunrise, the full intensity of the sun is now focused on the backstone by the passage and orthostats, illuminating almost its entire surface as seen below.
Home > The light now starts to cross onto the orthostats of the main chamber and will shortly begin its retreat down the right hand side of the passage.
Home > Unlike the winter solstice at Newgrange, the equinox event at Loughcrew is very informal and anyone who makes the cold, hard trek up the hillside before dawn will be rewarded with a few moments inside to view the alignment, if the sun makes a fairly rare appearance of course. Small groups are allowed in for some time before leaving to allow others to witness the event.
Home > The hilltop is littered with the ruined remains of many satellite tombs, none quite as large or as ornamently carved as Cairn T. Barely visible earlier in the morning twilight, the flood of light picks out their weathered and broken stones.
Home > Towards the end of the event, the floor of the passage is illuminted but does not cross the floor of the main chamber as at Newgrange, a curved-top sillstone blocks this late light from hitting the chamber floor.
Home > The exterior of Cairn T, viewed from the ruinous chamber of Cairn V.
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The equinox alignment event at Cairn T, Loughcrew. A special gallery of photographs from this wonderful spring sunrise.

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The equinox alignment event at Cairn T, Loughcrew. A special gallery of photographs from this wonderful spring sunrise.

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