Sligo, even higher than Maeve's cairn on Knocknarea.Īnother point of interest I discovered was the changing name of "Caorann" that became "Caorthann", Caorthinn, Caorthy, Carthy and MacCarthy meanin "son of the Rowan". Morrigan's cairn is the highest cairn in Co. It was as well we did because the standing stone, known as the Pinnacle, had fallen so with the help of the compass resurrected it. On a beautiful sunny Samhain day, just passed, Claire and I climbed Ceis Corran to remind ourselves of the view, peace and warmth of the site. With its Keash Caves opening at one end and two small hills like breasts with additional cairns appearing like nipples on the other end folklore calls this mountain the "womb of Ireland". Her cairn is in alignment to the Samhain and Imbolc sunrises from Lambay volcanic island, Tara, and Ward's Hill (Tlachta). On top of Ceis Corran mountain, or should we now say Ceis Caorann, is Morrigan's cairn and this mountain becomes symbolic of the goddess Morrigan about to give birth to Brighid. Put together we could make a sentence saying "a woman of the rowan carrying life" or, more harshly, "a pregnant woman of the Rowan". "Ceis" becomes a blending of two words meaning "a woman carrying life" and "Corran" appears to be the shortening of "Caorann", a spelling that fits more into how the locals pronounce this, and this means "of the Rowan". I live below Ceis Corran and local people pronounce the mountain differently to sound like "kaysh koaran" which gives it an entirely different meaning. If the gaelic Ceis Corran is pronounced Kesh Corran is has an odd meaning of of "willow road of Corran", Corran being a legendary Tuatha De Dannan harper, but there is no evidence of a willow road here. The Rowan blossom also provides a scent of strong apple blossom. They are both in the same botanical family.
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When the Rowan blossoms have fallen in mid June the trees appear to be full of forming crab apples so its easy to understand people thinking these are apple trees. Was the Tree of Life really a Rowan Tree, though apple trees, especially crabapple trees are also "trees of protection". Not that there are 5 signs after Libra before the zodiac restarts at Aries. In ancient times the tree of life was of the T shape cross with 5 apples, as shown on some of Ireland's high crosses and possibly on the many ancient tree cross gravestones in ancient Irish cemeteries. When the Tree of Life grew it split up the signs that are now Virgo and Scorpio and the Libra sign was the tree of life. There is an ancient story that was passed on from the Chaldeans that tells of the zodiac being of 10 signs. The Tuatha De Dannan are said to have burned Rowan during any threat of conflict to call upon the protection of Morrigan. In Tuatha De Dannan times the Rowan is said to have been sacred to the goddess Morrigan and then onto her daughter Brighid during Celtic times. Legends tell of the first people coming to Ireland approaching from the west searching for the "Tree of Life" said to be west of the lands.
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