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Calliagh Berra's House

Slieve Gullion, County Armagh

A tomb on a mountaintop, home of a witch who made Finn old.

On the summit of Slieve Gullion is the highest surviving passage tomb in Ireland, known as the Calliagh Berra's House. Legend says this witch tricked Finn McCool into diving into the mountain lake to find her ring, and he came out a white-haired old man.

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When
About 3000 BC
Where
54.1200, -6.4310
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

A steep walk from the Slieve Gullion Forest Park drive.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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