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The Loughcrew Cairns
Sliabh na Cailli / The Hills of the Witch
Competition for Primary School Children.
Draw a Picture, Write a Poem or Write a Story (max 300 words)
Prizes in Every Category!
Entries by 12th June '09
The 5000 year old Loughcrew Cairns near Oldcastle, Co Meath are Passage Tombs built during the Stone Age. Their name in Irish is Sliabh na Cailli, the Hills of the Witch. Legend has it that the Witch or Hag jumped from one hill to the next, dropping stones from her apron to form the Cairns.
After she had jumped onto three hills, she still had to make it to another and make a fourth group of cairns in order to attain great power. As she attempted to get to the last hill, she fell and was killed. The story says she was buried where she fell, on the slopes of Patrickstown hill.
Conditions of Entry
Subject:
• All entries must be connected to the Loughcrew Cairns and/or the story of the Witch who made them.Size:
• Pictures must be on A4 size paper.• Poems and Stories must be written on A4 size paper.
Send to:
• Loughcrew Schools Competition, Bru na Boinne, Donore, Co Meath.• Entrants' name, home address and telephone number and age must be written clearly on the back.
• Do not use your school address as we will be contacting winners during the school holidays.
Date:
• All entries to reach us by Friday June 12th 2009.Prizes:
• There will be prizes for the 3 best pictures, the 3 best poems and the 3 best stories.• The winners will be presented with their prizes in Oldcastle Library during Heritage Week 2009 (last week in August).
• A selection of entries will be on display in Oldcastle Library from August 24th 2009 until September 30th 2009. Thereafter it will form part of the Halloween Exhibition at Bru na Boinne Visitor Centre during October 2009.
The Office of Public Works and Meath Tourism reserve the right to reproduce any of the entries. Judges decision is final. Entries cannot be returned.
Organised by the OPW and Meath Tourism in association with Meath County Council Library Service.
