page_title: Cailleach
section_title: Locations associated with the Cailleach
hierarchical_section_title: Cailleach / Locations associated with the Cailleach
caption_attribution_description: English: Summit of Slieve na Calliagh
context_page_description: In Gaelic mythology the Cailleach is a divine hag, a creator deity, a weather deity, and an ancestor deity. In modern Scottish folklore studies, she is also known as Beira, Queen of Winter. The word literally means "old woman, hag", and is found with this meaning in modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and has been applied to numerous mythological figures in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
caption: The burial chamber at the summit of Sliabh na Caillí
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