Ray High Cross, Falcarragh, Donegal
Ray is a townland a little beyond Falcarragh on the road to Dunfanaghy (near Joe & Anne Kane’s Studio) It boasts an ancient Irish Church site associated with Iona and therefore St Columba , and…
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The many uses of St Columba
From Richard Sharpe’s introduction to his translation of of Adomnan’s Life of St Columba, there are some fascinating passages on how Columba came to be used as a sort of…
Birthplace of St Columba, Gartan, Donegal
Traditionally, St Columba’s birthplace was near Lough Gartan, Church Hill, Co Donegal. Church Hill is a village near Glenveagh National Park, and is on the fringes of the Derryveagh…
Séamus Sweeney 