Tallaght Hill has a long hidden and forgotten secret. It is home to a special Summer Solstice Sunrise, just like Newgrange with its Winter Solstice Sunrise: both events align up with Lambay Volcano (extinct) before the modified beam of Sunlight goes into an ancient temple. For Tallaght Hill - this temple is on private land and permission is required - do not park blocking a gate. We share some pics of the Sun Magic on Tallaght Hill...
The yellow shape of the Suns coverage reminds me of a Golden Lunala - can be seen in our National Museum.
The Magic Beast of Samhradh is An Láir Bhán or White Mare. During the protest at the destruction of Tara for Dick Cheneys toll road, one of the group found a wooden statue of the white mare in a skip. We added it to our ceremony that Full Moon night.
In the library in Tallaght's co-co offices there are maps and stories of Tallaght Hill showing ancient wells and temples. Just say you are doing "local history studies" when inquiring - it is a trigger phrase that gets help.
The Magic Beast in the Summer night sky.
Above is a map I sketched from walking the hill back in the early 90s. Don't block gates.
Malachi Horan's map from the book called "Malachi Horan Remembers" published in 1943 by Dr George A. Little. This book is in the National Library - also online at mad prices
Me and a crew in 1994 or 5. We are standing on Tallaght Hill watching the Sun rise over Lambay Volcano on the Summer Solstice.
If you get to this visual - you are west of the remains of a cairn (a cairn is a pile of stones over a Temple that the Archaeologists refer to as a grave) - physically this is all that is left. But the alignment - the quartz faced entrance stone, the pond on the top of the (we cleared it in '94 by hand) hill, the earth bank and the Lambay Volcano and the Sun. What a view - you can see Newgrange from here and all of Dublin too just as your ancestors did on the longest day sunrise thousands of years ago.
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