I've been a frequent visitor at the Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery for quite a few years now, sometimes bringing tour groups, sometimes visiting on my own account. I've travelled down a couple of times at Halloween for events at the Visitor Centre, in the hope of witnessing the special Halloween sunrise alignment at Listoghil, the central tomb of the complex, though I've yet to see it at its best in clear conditions. What's the connection with Slieve Daeane? Well, for a period of four months in the winter, if you watch the sun come up at Carrowmore, it rises from behind a group of hills known in English as the Ballygawley Mountains, which make up the eastern end of the Ox Mountains or Slieve Gamph. Slieve Daeane is the highest of these relatively low peaks (all under 300m) and the only one featured on MV. From Halloween to the winter solstice the position of the sunrise passes across four different peaks, all of which have megalithic tombs themselves, like the tombs at Carrowmore. At Halloween the sunrise occurs over a saddle in the townland of Aghamore Far. By a few weeks later it has moved on to Slieve Daeane. A few more weeks on the sun rises over Slieve Dargan. Finally, on the shortest day in December, it crosses the horizon at a knoll with an open tomb known as Cailleach a Bhearra's House. It lingers here for a few days before starting to reverse this journey until it reaches Aghamore Far again around Feb 10. So I had been planning for a little while to climb these peaks and explore the tombs. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/978/comment/23389/