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Slieve na Calliagh
53.7445° N, -7.1117° E
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Slieve na Calliagh (Irish: Sliabh na Caillí or Sliabh na Cailleach, meaning 'the Cailleach's mountain') are a range of hills and ancient burial site near Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland. The summit is 276 metres (906 ft), the highest point in the county. On the hilltops are about twenty passage tombs, some decorated with rare megalithic art, which were built in the 4th millennium BC. Also called the Loughcrew tombs, it is a protected National Monument and is one of the main passage tomb cemeteries in Ireland, along with Brú na Bóinne, Carrowkeel and Carrowmore.
Historical Timeline
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E. A. Conwell survey
1864
Rotherham survey
1895
George Coffey investigations
early 20th century
Equinox alignment discovery
1980
Construction of passage tombs
c. 3000 BC
Early settlement ancestry
c. 4200 BC
Archaeological Features
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Burial and Funerary Structures
Artistic and Decorative Features
Environmental and Natural Features
Astronomical and Timekeeping Structures
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