Queen Maebh’s Cairn?…



County Sligo, Carrowmore, Tuesday 26th July 2022…

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Whilst it is a reconstruction

there is nothing to overtly suggest

that it is modelled on the cairn on top of the hill?

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The name Maebh derives from ‘mead’ which is why

in some of the Old Irish texts she is called ‘sweet-mouthed’.

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Queen Maebh is another one of the major characters in,

‘The Ulster Spoil’, that huge, sprawling, epic of a tale…

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