Múchán / Mooghaun hill fort is just outside Newmarket-on-Fergus in County Clare. Come on this journey with Eoin to Múchán where we ask the question: did the people who built this hill fort speak an ancestor of the Irish language.
The video features footage of a frosty morning at Múchán from Sunday 7th January 2024.
Walking around pre-historic sites like this late Bronze Age site, or older Neolithic sites like Brú na Bóinne, we can feel the ancientness of the locations. By visiting these ancient sites, it can inform our worldview on the timespan involved with the Irish language. By speaking Gaeilge, we’re tapping into a much old sense of time, and to a time where people may have had a healthy respect for cosmic or infinite time.
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References:
- Wikipedia page on Mooghaun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooghaun
- Voices of Dawn, with writings by Howard Goldbaum https://voicesfromthedawn.com/mooghaun/ – includes references to writings by archeologist Eoin Grogan.
- Cassidy LM, Martiniano R, Murphy EM, Teasdale MD, Mallory J, Hartwell B, Bradley DG. Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jan 12;113(2):368-73. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1518445113. Epub 2015 Dec 28. PMID: 26712024; PMCID: PMC4720318. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26712024/
- Bitesize Irish blog with audio and photos: A walk around Múchán hillfort
Very intetesting and educational. Its a pity that all of the hoard that was discoveref is not avilable. Lovely to see our heritage preserved, thank you
Go raibh maith agat. Some of the gold hoard was preserved and some can be seen at the National Museum of Ireland. It’s a shame for sure, but I can imagine it was difficult to justify otherwise when it was the riches of a lifetime perhaps.
Eoin
Great historical walk, Eoin 🙂
Thanks for sharing the video and showing this extraordinary place.
Go raibh maith agat, a Anna 🙂
Eoin