Millmount’s Cosmic
Alignments: New Data
Questions about Millmount
Who built it?
The Vikings
What did the Normans
build?
Strategic location
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When was it constructed?
When was it constructed?
Folklore about Millmount
Underground passageways
Implications of this
folklore
What was its original
purpose?
Inbher Colpa, auspicious
estuary
Inbher Colpa, auspicious
estuary
"It was the mouth of..."
Bealach/Bóthar na Bó
Finne
Millmount dominates the
view
What is its place in the
wider landscape?
Millmount’s alignments
and the “cosmic landscape”
“Astronomy” and “Cosmos”
“Cosmic Landscape”
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"This cosmological
system,"
An examination of
Millmount’s “cosmic” alignments
NW: Summer Solstice
Sunset
SE: Winter Solstice
Sunrise
SW: Winter Solstice
Sunset
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"There is a mythical
connection..."
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"The tradition of
the Lia..."
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Enter Alexander Thom . .
.
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Could this be true?
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"Towards an area
called Black..."
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Saint Patrick
Slane’s Equinox
alignments
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Patrick and the snakes
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"Millmount,"
". . . . ...."
"All the way to the..."
"Total distance from
Millmount"
Why Croagh Patrick?
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Another Millmount
alignment
Fourknocks, Co. Meath
Millmount – Mil Mount?
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Sceptical about “cosmic
alignments”?
Perhaps, but if we can show the alignment has
a mythical and astronomical significance, this narrows the odds that it is
coincidental. Plus, some sites are obviously more important than others, from a
mythical and archaeological perspective. Slane, Croagh Patrick, Cruachan Ai?
Alignments raise as many
questions as they answer.
Consider the following selection of alignments over short and long
distances:
Coincidence or design?
Sliabh Breagh – Newgrange
- Fourknocks
Sliabh Breagh – Newgrange
- Fourknocks
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Alignments – too many to
dismiss?
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Millmount’s Antiquity
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