The Mortuary House and the Oval Stone are gone. Some time refereed to as the 'hut and the oval; they are simply not there any more and despite their having names their uses are unknown.
Orientation to the Sun
Back in the 70's excavation era this temple was considered as a huge grave with an interesting aspect to the Sun and not as a solar temple. MJ and Claire O'Kelly who led the excavation and rebuild were insulted in the media by staunch old school types when the couple showed it was a sun temple. WB Yeats an AE Russel had enjoyed an inspired sunrise inside the temple and AE wrote a famous poem about it 70 years earlier. Called "A Dream of Aengus Oge" by George William Russell (who
used the pseudonym Æ or AE). It was published in his 1897 book The Earth Breath and Other Poems and is an interpretation of Aisling Óenguso
But aligned with this solar temple denial is the orientation of these maps / drawings so that the top of the page is not given as north. This means that the alignment to the rising Sun on the shortest day has not been allowed to line up with its true orientation to the world wide celebrated solstice. 3 out of 4 plans do not have the same North arrow and one plan does not even have a North arrow.
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