Loughcrew

Loughcrew or Lough Crew is an area of amazing historic significance near Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland. It is domestic to a group of megalithic tombs relationship again to the 4th millennium BC, which sits on top of more than a few hills. The hills and tombs are together called Slieve na Calliagh and are the very best factor in Meath. It is deemed one of the 4 essential passage tomb websites in Ireland and is a covered National Monument. The location is also domestic to the Loughcrew Estate, from which it is known as. In more current centuries Loughcrew became the seat of a department of the Norman-Irish Plunkett family, whose most well-known member have become the martyred St Oliver Plunkett.

The own family church stands in the grounds of Loughcrew Gardens. With its barren remoted location, Sliabh na Caillí have become a critical meeting point all through the Penal Laws for Roman Catholics. Even even though the woods are actually long gone an incredible instance of a Mass Rock can nevertheless be visible at the pinnacle of Sliabh na Caillí nowadays. The Plunketts had been concerned in going for walks the Irish Confederacy of the 1640s and were dispossessed within the Cromwellian Settlement of 1652.