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===Ireland=== In Ireland, the Cailleach is associated with craggy, prominent mountains and outcroppings, such as Hag's Head ({{Irish place name|Ceann Caillí|hag's head}}) the southernmost tip of the [[Cliffs of Moher]] in [[County Clare]].<ref name="Monaghan" /> [[Labbacallee wedge tomb]] ({{Irish place name|Leaba Chaillí|the hag's bed}}) is located near [[Glanworth]], [[County Cork]] and is, according to folklore, the Cailleach's grave and former dwelling where she lived with her husband, [[Mug Ruith|Mogh Ruith]], who she threw a boulder at, pinning him to the floor of the [[River Funshion]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Leask |first1=H. G. |last2=Price |first2=Liam |last3=Martin |first3=C. P. |last4=Bailey |first4=K. C. |date=1935 |title=The Labbacallee Megalith, Co. Cork |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25515993 |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature |volume=43 |pages=77–101 |jstor=25515993 |issn=0035-8991}}</ref> [[File:Skellig 1.JPG|thumb|The 'Wailing Woman' rock on [[Skellig Michael]], [[County Kerry]], is associated with [[The Hag of Beara]]]] There is a rock on the [[Beara Peninsula]] in [[West Cork]] at [[List of townlands of the barony of Bear|Kilcatherine]] said to resemble the Cailleach. In mythology she is said to have leapt across the bay from [[List of townlands of the barony of Bear|Coulagh]] to its present location. The megalithic tombs at [[Loughcrew]] in [[County Meath]] are situated atop [[Slieve na Calliagh]] ({{Irish place name|Sliabh na Caillí|the hag's mountain}}) and include a kerbstone known as "the hag's chair".<ref name=hagschair>Cochrane, Andrew (2005) "[http://www.knowth.com/loughcrew-cochrane4.htm A taste of the unexpected: subverting mentalités through the motifs and settings of Irish passage tombs]". p.4: "To the north of Cairn T and on the exterior is located K29 or the ‘Hag’s Chair’. This kerbstone has visual imagery on its front and back face. The top of the central part of this kerbstone is believed to be artificially cut to create the chair appearance (Shee Twohig 1981, 217; contra. Conwell 1866, 371)".</ref> Cairn T on Slieve na Calliagh is a classic [[passage tomb]], in which the rays of the [[equinox]] sunrise shine down the passageway and illuminate an inner chamber filled with megalithic stone carvings.<ref name=knowth2>Documented in [http://www.knowth.com/loughcrew-equinox.htm photos and videos taken on site for six years running].</ref> The summit of [[Slieve Gullion]] in [[County Armagh]] features a passage tomb known locally as the 'Calliagh Beara's House'. There is also a lake, where the Calliagh is said to have played a trick on the mythical warrior, [[Fionn mac Cumhaill]], when he took on the physical appearance of an old man after diving into the lake to retrieve a ring that the Calliagh fooled him into thinking was lost.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ringofgullion.org/news/calliagh-berras-lake-article-discover-ireland-e-zine/|title = The Calliagh Berra's Lake – Article in Discover Ireland e-zine}}</ref> [[Aillenacally]] (''Aill na Caillí'', "Hag Cliff") is a [[cliff]] in [[County Galway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.logainm.ie/en/18159?s=Aill+na+Caill%C3%AD|title=Aill na Caillí/Aillenacally|website=Logainm.ie}}</ref> The [[Carrowmore]] passage tombs on the [[Coolera Peninsula|Cúil Iorra Peninsula]] in [[County Sligo]], are associated with the Cailleach. One is called the Cailleach a Bhéara's House.<ref name=cailleachhouse>Meehan, Padraig. Listoghil, A Seasonal Alignment, 2014, Gungho Publications,</ref> [[William Butler Yeats]] refers to the Sligo Cailleach as the 'Clooth na Bare'.<ref name=clooth>Jeffares, Alexander Norman. A Commentary on the Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, 1968, Stanford University Press</ref> In County Sligo she is also called the [[River Garavogue|Garavogue]] Cailleach. <gallery widths="180px" heights="160px" perrow="3"> File:Cairns S(?) and T, Loughcrew.jpg|Remains of passage tombs on [[Slieve na Calliagh]], [[County Meath]] File:11. Labbacallee Wedge Tomb, Co. Cork.jpg|[[Labbacallee wedge tomb]] or "The Hag's Bed", near [[Glanworth]], [[County Cork]] </gallery>
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