Newgrange DVD

Images of Megalithic Cairns
Carnbane East (Cairnbane East) Loughcrew.

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Aerial view - Carnbane East - Loughcrew

Aerial view - Loughcrew Cairn T

Aerial pictures of Loughcrew Carnbane East - Cairn T is the centrepiece cairn

Loughcrew Cairn T - Carnbane East

Hag's Chair - Loughcrew Cairn T

Cairn T - Carnbane East

Cairn T - Entrance

Cairn T - Hag's Chair

Cairn T - Chamber Backstone

Loughcrew Cairn T - stone carving in left hand chamber

Cairn T - Backstone

Cairn T - Right recess

Cairn T - Left recess

Ceiling Stone over the back chamber in Cairn T

Cairn T - Ceiling Stone

Cairn T - Orthostat R1

Cairn T - Orthostat L1

Cairn U - Loughcrew Carnbane East

Cairn U - Carving on backstone of right hand chamber

Cairn U - Carnbane East

Cairn U - Passage

Cairn U - Carving (right)

Equinox Sunrise at the Gossan Stones

Video of Loughcrew Spring Equinox

Cairn U - Carving on backstone of left hand chamber

Cairn U - Carving (left)

Loughcrew Cairns V and T by Steve Emerson

Loughcrew Cairn V with Cairn T in the background © Steve Emerson

The illumination of the passage and chamber at the Winter solstice sunrise in Newgrange is world famous. Less well known is the Equinox illumination at sunrise in Cairn T at Loughcrew. The backstone of the chamber is illuminated by a beam of light at sunrise on the Spring and Autumnal Equinoxes.

The sun light is shaped by the stones of the entrance and passage and descends the backstone while moving from left to the right illuminating the solar symbols.

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