On a golden evening people carry sheaves across a stubble field of oat stooks to a ring-fort with a thatched round house, the cairns of Loughcrew on the hills beyond.

Station of the sun · about 22 September

Cónocht an Fhómhair

The autumn equinox

Say it: KOH-nukht un OH-wir

The second lighting of Cairn T.

Open it on the full site There the Wheel of the Year starts from today, and counts the nights to the next festival.

The sun rises due east and lights the back of Cairn T at Loughcrew again. The harvest is in; the nights grow longer than the days, and the year leans towards Samhain.

The word

Fómhar is the harvest, and autumn.

Sources

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