In the dark stone chamber of Cairn T at Loughcrew, a shaft of gold sunrise light falls across a backstone carved with rayed suns, flowers, rings and zigzags.

Station of the sun · about 20 March

Cónocht an Earraigh

The spring equinox

Say it: KOH-nukht

Light on the carved stones of Loughcrew.

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

At Loughcrew in Co. Meath, at the spring and autumn equinoxes, the rising sun shines down the passage of Cairn T and lights the carved stone at the back of its chamber. That its builders meant it so is likely, but it is an inference.

The word

Cónocht is the Irish word for an equinox.

Sources

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