A Holy Well in Kilcash Wood?
Kilcash Wood is a Coillte site in the village on the lower slopes of Slievenamon. I guess climbing Slievenamon takes the focus away from here as a walking destination. It…
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Torture in Clogheen
From The Nationalist (current edition): Close up on the story itself: Close up on record holder Tommy Noonan: Close up on the man with the 20 euro:
Doon Mass Rock, Doon, Co. Donegal.
While the Holy Well and the rock where the O’Donnell chieftain was inaugurated are better known, the site near Termon in Donegal features a well–preserved Mass Rock. These photos capture it from…
The Commons – Ballingarry Famine Walk , 28th July 2018
A little while ago I blogged that Choctaw artist/writer Waylon Gary White Deer was to lead a Famine Walk on the 28th July Well, today was the 28th July, so…
“The knowledge of a raven’s head” – Celtic language T-Shirts from Mireog, Ring, Waterford
I recently came across Mireog, a company based in Ring, Co Waterford . I first came across their T-shirts but they have a whole range of products. More info on Mireog: Mireog…
Every gravestone tells a story: from Drangan, Co Tipperary
Graveyards are full of stories. Thomas Grey’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard captured this decisively in poetic form – so much so that any subsequent poem seems a pale shadow.…
Was Charles Hughesdon the last surviving eyewitness of Michael Collins’ funeral?
A few years ago I came across this obituary in the Daily Telegraph. It seems a little parochial to wonder if, in the midst of a busy and incident-packed life,…
Séamus Sweeney 