Suspected Alignment / Alignments: Summer Solstice Sun-set
Site Type: Passage Tomb
Irish Grid Ref: N6090975865
Location: Link to Bing Maps
Description:
The tomb is in a ruinous state of preservation. Frank Prendergast in his 2011 paper "The Loughcrew Hills and Passage Tomb Complex" mentions that "an additional alignment recently discovered by the writer links the outlying ruined tomb at Thomastown with Cairn T on the summit of Carnbane East. The spectacle of the sun setting behind the elevationally higher Cairn T at the period of the Summer
Solstice in late June (astronomical declination c. +24°) provides evidence of the wider role and meaning of the passage tombs". On pg 52 of the paper there is a picture by Ken Williams showing the alignment.
Links to photographs;
Picture of the tomb from archaeology.ie looking to the SE
Picture of the tomb from archaeology.ie looking to the NW
Links for further information;
The Loughcrew Hills and Passage Tomb Complex by Frank Prendergast detailing the alignment on pg 52
