Qualla: Cashtal yn Ard https://qualla.com/cashtal-yn-ard en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cashtal yn Ard https://qualla.com/cashtal-yn-ard Cashtal yn Ard: Introduction https://qualla.com/cashtal-yn-ard/ Stand on the low hill at Cashtal yn Ard on a clear day and you can see across the parish of Maughold, across the Irish Sea, all the way to the Lake District in England. The Neolithic people who built this chambered tomb roughly four thousand years ago chose the site for exactly that reason. The Manx name they were given long after - Cashtal yn Ard, Castle of the Heights - is plain about it. Down on lower ground, life was lived. Up here, the dead were placed under stone, watching the line where sky meets sea.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/cashtal-yn-ard-wp/gcsu-cashtal-yn-ard-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cashtal yn Ard: A Castle Made of Pigs https://qualla.com/cashtal-yn-ard/ Names attach themselves to a place over time, and Cashtal yn Ard has carried at least three. Before it was the Castle of the Heights, locals knew it as Cashtal y Mucklagh y Vagileragh - the Castle of the Field Pigsty - probably because at some point the wide forecourt of the tomb...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/cashtal-yn-ard-wp/gcsu-cashtal-yn-ard-a-castle-made-of-pigs.mp3 0:06 2 full Cashtal yn Ard: Bones of a Young Person https://qualla.com/cashtal-yn-ard/ When the cairn was excavated in the 1930s and again in 1999, no human remains were found. But in 1885 the antiquarian Llewellynn Jewitt had reported the discovery of older bone fragments at the site - pieces of skull with the suture still open, an upper jawbone with teeth regular...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/cashtal-yn-ard-wp/gcsu-cashtal-yn-ard-bones-of-a-young-person.mp3 0:06 3 full Cashtal yn Ard: Cousins Across the Sea https://qualla.com/cashtal-yn-ard/ The archaeologists H. J. Fleure and G. J. H. Neely noticed something striking about Cashtal yn Ard when they looked at it alongside other Neolithic tombs across Europe. The structure resembled the Giants' Tombs of Sardinia and the Bridestones in Cheshire, England. Different lands...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/cashtal-yn-ard-wp/gcsu-cashtal-yn-ard-cousins-across-the-sea.mp3 0:06 4 full Cashtal yn Ard: Standing Stones, Open Air https://qualla.com/cashtal-yn-ard/ Today the site is open ground, signposted from the small village of Cornaa. There is no roof, no museum, no entry fee. The stones stand where they have stood since people last placed them. You walk up through farmland, you come over the rise, and the tomb is just there - long and...

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