Cairn

Stories tagged Cairn:

• Knocknarea and Queen Medb’s Cairn Aug 13, 2025

  

  Before the grey Atlantic throws itself on the strand at Sligo, a short green mountain rises—Knocknarea, a table set for the sky. On its crown is a cairn of stones, and in every house from Strandhill to the Garavogue someone can tell you whose it is.

  “Medb,” they say, and if they are old they say it as if it tasted of apples and iron.