Before I came to the artist residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centr e, I stayed with my friend Mary in Dublin whose passion is visiting the sacred sites across this country. She took Rebecca Crowell and me out to Loughcrew, Slieve na Calliagh, the hill of the witch or hag's mountain. Read Rebecca' s blog posts of this residency too. The remains at Loughcrew are passage tombs, a particular style of neolithic architecture. They have a passage, ordinarily long and narrow, which opens into a domed chamber. We first went to Carnbane East. It was a long, rainy and wildly windy walk to the top of the hill to Cairn T (sometimes called the Hag's Cairn). We had collected the key for the passage tomb at the Loughcrew Historic Gardens Coffee Shop. Imagine that we were able to go into this cairn and sit inside, in the dark, beside these incredible stones! Cairn T is oriented to the autumn equinox, which happens within the next three days. ...