Irish Round Towers

by David R. Cowan

There have been over 70 of these round towers built in Ireland, and they have perplexed  scientists and archaeologists  for many years. One of the many strange facts about these towers is that the doors have been placed  so high above the ground, up to  3 metres in some cases.

Professor Callahan (see below) believes this was to allow the base to be filled with earth, to adjust the resonant frequency of the tower.

      Every tower has been placed in, or at least very near to a burial ground, and occasionally have been constructed  on top of existing burials.

Abernethy Round Tower. The door  is some three feet above the present ground level, which in turn is about five feet above the  original ground level.

   This pict stone is not in its original position, and may have been erected some distance away.




   The top engraving is believed to be a tuning fork, and inside the wavy lines are may be symbolic of water, but are more likely to depict the natural electromagnetic waves of energy they knew so much about.

PROFESSOR PHILIP CALLAGHAN

Professor Phillip Callahan from the U.S.A. has researched these towers for much of his life and believes that they are powerful amplifiers in the alpha brain wave region, 2 to 4 Hz., which is in the electrical anasthesia region, 1000 to 3000 Hz., and the electronic induction heating region, 5000 Hz. to 1000 KHz. "It is fascinating, he says, that just above the surface of the ground, about 2 to 4 feet up, there is a null of atmospheric frequencies that get stronger and stronger until at 9 to 15 feet above the surface they are extremely strong.
     "The Irish monks were well aware of this for that is where they placed their high doors. At every tower we measured there was a direct correlation between the tower door height and the strongest waves. That the highly amplified waves occur in the meditative and electrical anasthesia portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is of course of the utmost significance".
      In 1963, G. Walter researched brain EEG waves from 0.5 to 3 Hz. (Delta region) and found anti-infectious effects.
    There is an elegant but short list of research projects demonstrating the beneficial effect of low ELF wavelength on sick people.
    Professor Callaghan measured 14.6 long wavelengths from the sky above, collected, he believes, by these strong waveguide structures.
    He also discovered that these towers have been constructed with paramagnetic stone, such as sandstone, limestone and mica schist, and has formulated the theory that the ground plan of the Irish  towers in Ireland mirrors some of the  constellations in the night sky, something which the ancient Egyptians and Chinese also did.

Using divining rods, however, I have found that their main purpose was to attract the unhealthy aspect of spirit lines (see separate page on Spirit Lines)  into them, where they are presumably transmuted into healthy energies, or are safely dumped back into the planet.

    The white, or healthy aspect of this energy (every grave has both black (negative), or white (positive), spirals emitted from them) in turn, travels some considerable distance from the burial ground, presumably into houses, where they are attracted into the occupants' beds.

I followed one of these white spirit lines for some miles to the town of Coupar Angus (Perthshire).  Walking along the long straight road my divining rod, which had been accurately folllowing one wave, suddenly turned at right angles, pointing across the road. When I looked up, to my surprise I found that it was attracted to a very modern graveyard. This was over a mile from the round tower, but it was, apparently, still attracting the Spirit Lines from this burial ground into it.   

Left: The white spiral from this burial unwinds and travels into one of the nearby houses.

Left: Spirit lines are emitted from each grave, one initially spiralling clockwise, and one anti-clockwise.

They travel some distance on their own, wandering about, but when they meet their opposite sign they form a coherent wave and travel usually to the bed of the deceased (arrowed, top left).

Notice they will not pass through the iron gate, but prefer a weak exit, like an open iron gate or broken wall.
They will, however, pass through walls if there is no alternative.

        One of the basic discoveries in my research is that volcanic plugs and anomalies are very important to our ancestors, who used their energies in various ways. Accordingly, I drew a line on the map between Abernethy Tower and Brechin Round Tower near Aberdeen, and projected it to the south east, to what is probably the source of its energy ley, Ailsa Craig, which is another volcanic plug and apparently sticks out of the sea bed like a lighthouse.

Left: Ailsa Craig, off  the Ayrshire coast.

Another Method of Dumping Malevolent Spirit Energy Back Into the Planet

      At Fortingall burial ground, site of the famous 3,000 year old yew tree, I showed a party of friends how to pick up the two types of energy from the burials, when a friend, Pat Thoms, came up to me and asked me if I knew about the cup-marked stone in the annexe. Mystified, as I thought I knew every cup-marked stone in Perthshire, I said  that I didn't. He also told me that all of the black spirit lines in the annexe seemed to be attracted into it. Disbelieving, I went to have a look and found that he was quite correct.
      Moreover, not only did it accept the spirit lines in the annexe, but the entire burial ground. Presumably this petroglyphed stone was dumping the malevolent energy back into the planet via an underground fault.


Above: the author standing beside the cup-marked stone at Fortingall burial ground, Perthshire.

Left: The heavily cup-marked stone at Fortingall graveyard which attracts the malevolent energies from the entire graveyard.

Black spirit lines are attracted to resonant cavities such as this.

A stone's throw away from this ancient graveyard is another, Carn na Marbh, the cairn of the dead, where in the 14th century the bodies of the occupants of the village were hurriedly buried following the Bubonic Plague. It is quite fascinating to discover that the malevolent spirit lines have not been dumped back into the planet, but are attracted instead into other resonant cavities, this time the little thatched cottages, and presumably have a negative impact on the present day occupants.

I suspect that every ancient burial ground had its own cup-marked stone to channel these malevolent energies away from the living, but due to pressure from interments they must have almost entirely disapeared.

There is one other in Perthshire, however, and that is at Dundurn burial ground, St. Fillans, Perthshire. Seen here at left.

If any reader knows of any similar cup-marked stone in a burial ground, please contact me: