Uisneach Hill is an historical site in County Westmeath located near the village of Ballymore, and is considered the omphalos (mystical navel) of Éire, the country known by the English name Ireland, whereupon rests a great stone (Ail na Míreann, which means “stone of divisions”) marked with lines indicating the provincial borders of Connacht, Leinster, Ulster and Munster. County Westmeath (Contae na hIarmhí is a County situated in the Irish midlands, also popularly called the "Lake county" in the western part of the province Ballymore may refer to Ballymore, an Irish property company Ballymore County Donegal, Ireland Ballymore County Westmeath An omphalos is an ancient religious stone artifact, or Baetylus. Éire (ˈeːrʲə) is the Irish name for the island of Ireland and of the state of the same name. Tradition tells that Uisneach was a site favored for Beltane fires and Druidical ceremonies, in fact being considered second only to Emain Macha. Beltane is the anglicized spelling of Bealtaine ( or Bealltainn ( the Gaelic names for either the month of May or the festival that takes place on A druid was a member of the priestly and learned class in the ancient Celtic societies Navan Fort should not be confused with Navan in County Meath. In the poetic history Lebor Gabála Érenn (“Book of the Takings of Ireland”), the Nemedian Druid Mide lit the first fire there. Lebor Gabála Érenn ( The Book of the Taking of Ireland) is the Middle Irish title of a loose collection of Poems and Prose narratives In Irish mythology, Nemed ("holy" or "privileged" son of Agnoman of Scythia was the leader of the third group of inhabitants of Ireland In medieval Ireland, the Kings of Mide were of the Clann Cholmáin, a branch of the Uí Néill. A fire was also lit on the Hill of Uisneach on the feast of Bealtaine. This fire could be seen from Tara and when they saw it they lit their fire.
According to a popular passage from the same record, Ériu, a tutelary goddess sometimes considered the personification of Éire, meets the invading Milesians at Uisneach hill, where after some conversation and drama the Milesian poet Amairgin promises to give the country her name. In Irish mythology, Ériu (/ˈeːrʲu/ daughter of Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was the eponymous matron Goddess of Ireland Milesians are a people figuring in Irish mythology. The descendants of Míl Espáine, they were the final inhabitants of Ireland, and were believed to represent Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) claims a common belief that Stonehenge was transported to Britain from Uisneach. Geoffrey of Monmouth ( Gruffudd ap Arthur or Sieffre o Fynwy) (c The Historia Regum Britanniae ( English: The History of the Kings of Britain) is a pseudohistorical account of British history Stonehenge is a Prehistoric Monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury St. Brigid of Christian legend, who is also notably connected with fire, took the veil at this sacred locus.
Based on co-ordinates alone this may be the site identified as Raiba or Riba, the capital of North Leinster by Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), the Egyptian-Greek astronomer and cartographer, writing in his Geographia around the year A. Leinster (ˈlɛnstər Irish: Laighin, lainʲ one of the Provinces of Ireland, lies in the east of Ireland and comprises the counties of Claudius Ptolemaeus ( Greek: Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; after 83 &ndash ca The Geographia or Geography is Ptolemy 's main work besides the Almagest. D. 140.
Archaeologically the site consists of a set of monuments spreading over two square kilometres and includes enclosures and barrows, a megalithic tomb and two ancient roads. A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a Mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves There was an excavation in the 1920s and this showed occupation evidence from Neolithic up to the medieval period.
References
- MacKillop, James (1998). Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-869157-2.
- Jestice, Phyllis G. (2000). Encyclopedia of Irish Spirituality. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, Inc. . ISBN 1-57607-146-4.
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