When I saw this site on the OS map I felt a peculiar tingle run down my spine. I can't explain what it was but I just knew I had to visit it. When I arrived I could see nothing special about the site except that it occupied a little promontory that jutted out into a shallow valley to the north. I looked around the graveyard in case the tingle was my 'bullaun alarm' which sometimes goes off, but it wasn't.
I then noticed tha the church isn't actually built on the highest part of the ridge, slightly down the eastward slope and that this fairly modern (16th Century?) church also is not aligned east-west, but more northeast-southwest. Very odd indeed!
Standing against the outside of the 'east' wall, so that the altar would have been behind my back I started to look around. Looking due north across the false horizon created by the other side of the little valley I couldn't believe my eyes. There, appearing to sit on top of this ridge, was Maeve's Cairn (County Sligo).
If this isn't the location of a pre-christian sacred site I'll give up doing this for a hobby!
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Cormac's Chapel (Co. Tipperary) |  Baltinglass Abbey (Co. Wicklow) |  Dysart Church (Co. Roscommon) |
 Whitechurch (Co. Dublin) |  Trinity Chapel (Co. Wicklow) |  St. Mary's Church (Co. Wicklow) |
