Solar Eclipses Above Ireland's Loughcrew Cairns In The 34th Century BCE
As I posted in The Irish Megalithic Research Group on Facebook some days ago now, I was never able to find the 3340 BCE solar eclipse that Paul Griffin believed is represented in the overlapping concentric circles in Loughcrew's Cairn L. I finally looked for a solar eclipse occurring *anywhere* in the world in 3340 BC a week or so ago, and found the path of the solar eclipse in question mapped above western Canada using Xavier Jubier's Neolithic (-5500 to -2000) Solar Eclipses Database. . .
Not to worry though, because the aforementioned Neolithic solar eclipses database, which is presumably more up-to-date and accurate than 'The Digital Universe' computer program that Paul Griffin used to find the 3340 BCE solar eclipse over two decades ago, finds an annular eclipse occurring above Loughcrew just a quarter century later on March 4th. 3315 BCE:
There was also a strong partial solar eclipse above Ireland on May 4, 3337 BCE:
And. . . after having another search for solar eclipses occurring *anywhere* in the world, to confirm what I found regarding the 3340 BCE solar eclipse a week or so ago, this morning I found a 3341 BCE annular eclipse that was not far to the south of Ireland, and thus would have been observed as a strong partial solar eclipse above all of Ireland, in mid-July 3341 BCE:
This strong partial solar eclipse would have been close to the summer solstice. . .
So that is three strong solar eclipses occurring above Ireland within a quarter century during the first half of the 34th century BCE.
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