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Day 8 Of Our Ireland’s Ancient East Tour Brings Us To The Birthplace Of An Irish Goddess - St. Brigid, Just Outside Dund...
08/03/2026

Day 8 Of Our Ireland’s Ancient East Tour Brings Us To The Birthplace Of An Irish Goddess - St. Brigid, Just Outside Dundalk, Co. Louth! ☘️ 👸🏼 🥃 🇮🇪

According to tradition, Saint Brigid was born at Fochard Muirtheimne, about 450 AD. The place was later known as Fochard Bríde. For centuries pilgrims have been visiting the Holy Well in the graveyard on Faughart Hill, believed to be St Brigid’s birthplace and also visiting St Brigid’s Stream, where a series of penitential stations are performed. The old stations, numbers 6 to 10, are practiced at some very ancient looking stones. Station 7 known as the knee stone is actually a double bullaun stone, see image below. The stone at Station 8 ( The Waist Stone) appears to be a mushroom stone, the shape caused by water erosion and lately by the pilgrims rubbing it.

The stones are believed to have the power to cure certain ailments. Station 9 which at first glance would appear to be a cure for backache, has a small depression in the top that gathers water, which is believed to cure eye problems. The most curious looking stone is at station 10. Known as the headstone it has a shallow depression with a white circle painted around it. I was perplexed as to what its purpose might be, suddenly a man came along, knelt down at the stone and placed the top of his head in the white circle-mystery solved. Although totally surprised by his actions I managed to get a reasonable shot of this probably ancient practice. Station 6 is also performed at a weird looking stone known as the Hoof stone, for obvious reasons. These customs were practiced on the 1st February, St Brigid’s feast day, which is also the first day of Irish spring time.

Best Of Luck To The Meath Rings Team This Weekend At The All Irelands! 💪🏼 🇮🇪 As A Proud Sponsor Of The Meath Team We Als...
08/03/2026

Best Of Luck To The Meath Rings Team This Weekend At The All Irelands! 💪🏼 🇮🇪

As A Proud Sponsor Of The Meath Team We Also Want To Wish The Louth & Cork Teams The Best Of Luck In The Paddy Halpenny Perpetual Cup From Isadora & The Halpenny Family! 👏🏻 🤝🏻 💚💛 🇮🇪 🥃

08/03/2026

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End Of Week One Brings Us Home For Day 7 To The Beautiful Ardee Castle In Ardee, Co. Louth! 🤩 🏰 🇮🇪 🥃 Soon upgrade works ...
07/03/2026

End Of Week One Brings Us Home For Day 7 To The Beautiful Ardee Castle In Ardee, Co. Louth! 🤩 🏰 🇮🇪 🥃

Soon upgrade works are to be carried out on this castle to make it accessible once again and plans are in place to turn it into a community hub! 🤩

Located on the east side of Castle Street, this building ranks as the largest fortified town house to survive in Ireland. The mass of its masonry makes it the most noticeable of the remains of the medieval town of Ardee. Dating from the fifteenth century, this structure is known as ‘Ardee Castle’, ‘St Leger’s Castle’ and ‘Pipard’s Castle’.

Rectangular in plan, with projecting turrets at the north-west and south-west angles, the building stands four storeys high. The original entrance to the tower was through a pointed-arched doorway in the north-west angle. The door was protected by a machicolation on the outside, with a ‘murder-hole’ on the interior.

The Marquess of Ormond issued orders to the garrison to destroy the town prior to Cromwell’s arrival but these orders were not carried out and the town fell to Cromwell. James II and William of Orange stayed, at different times, in the castle prior to the Battle of the Boyne. In 1805 the castle was handed over to the Louth Grand Jury and converted into a courthouse and prison.

The name Ardee is the Anglicised form of Ath Fhirdia, ‘the ford of Ferdia’, a reference to an episode in the epic tale Táin Bó Cuailgne. It is here on the southern extremes of the Plain of Muirthemne that Cuchullain fought a heroic duel with his friend Ferdia. The fight is thought to have taken place just upstream from the present bridge.

06/03/2026

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Day 6 Of Our Irelands Ancient East Tour Brings Us To The Medieval St Laurence’s Gate In The Heart Of Drogheada, Co. Lout...
06/03/2026

Day 6 Of Our Irelands Ancient East Tour Brings Us To The Medieval St Laurence’s Gate In The Heart Of Drogheada, Co. Louth

Drogheda’s name derives from the Irish Droichead Átha meaning ‘bridge of the ford’ which refers to the River Boyne on which it stands. Drogheda was granted its charter in 1194 by Hugh de Lacy (after whom the de Lacy bridge in Drogheda is named).

The Anglo-Normans made Drogheda one of their primary strongholds, completing the town walls in 1334. The walled area of the mediaeval Drogheda enclosed 113 acres, making it one of the largest walled towns of the time.

St. Laurence’s Gate, which led to the Friary of St Laurence, is widely regarded as one of the finest of its kind in Europe. It consists of two lofty circular towers, connected together by a wall, in which there is an archway. Visitors can appreciate the spectacular dimensions of the mediaeval walls south of the gate at Featherbed Lane. The gates and walls not only protected the town but also controlled access to the markets; traders had to pass through the gates and pay taxes on their produce.

Twice the walls and gates of Drogheda held strong against invasion, firstly when Edward Bruce (brother of Robert Bruce I of Scotland) attacked the town in 1317 and again in 1642 when Sir Phelim O’Neill attempted to take Drogheda from its English garrison.

In 1649, Oliver Cromwell breached the walls and sacked the town, massacring 2,000 Royalist sympathisers and deporting captives as indentured servants to Barbados. In 1690 Drogheda surrendered to King William after he defeated his father-in-law James II at the nearby Battle of the Boyne.

Day 5 Of Our Irelands Ancient East Tour Brings Us To The Magical Cooley Mountains Outside Of Dundalk, Co. Louth. The Coo...
05/03/2026

Day 5 Of Our Irelands Ancient East Tour Brings Us To The Magical Cooley Mountains Outside Of Dundalk, Co. Louth.

The Cooley Mountains Are Part Of Our Origin Story As The Water Used During Distillation Is Piped Directly From The Mountains To The Great Northern Distillery In Dundalk, Where Our Farmora Smooth Is Created! 🤩 🥃 ⛰️ 💧 🇮🇪 ☘️

The Cooley Mountains (Irish: Sléibhte Cuaille) are on the Cooley Peninsula in northeast County Louth in Ireland. They consist of two ridges running northwest to southeast, separated by the valley of Glenmore with the Big River running through it.

Slieve Foy, at 589 metres (1,932 ft), is the highest peak of the range and the highest in County Louth. It is on the eastern ridge, which is about 6 km (3.7 mi) long and also includes the peaks of The Eagles Rock (528m), The Ravens Rock (457m), The Foxes Rock (404m), and Barnavave (350m). This latter name comes from Bearna Mhéabha (Maeve’s Gap), and refers to the legendary Queen Medb (Maeve), whose army is said to have dug a pass through the mountain.
The western ridge is made up of Clermont Carn (510 m), Carnavaddy (475m) and Slievenaglogh (310m).
The mountains are the mythical home of hurling as told in the Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley), when Sétanta traveled through the mountains hitting his sliothar (ball) before him on his way to Emain Macha. This feat is re-enacted every year in the All-Ireland Poc Fada Championship which takes place on Annaverna Mountain.

Day 4 Of Our Ireland’s Ancient East Tour Brings Us To Dunsany, Navan, Co. Meath. Today We Look At The Beautiful Hill Of ...
04/03/2026

Day 4 Of Our Ireland’s Ancient East Tour Brings Us To Dunsany, Navan, Co. Meath.

Today We Look At The Beautiful Hill Of Tara 🤩 ☘️

The Hill of Tara is the jewel in the crown of the Boyne Valley landscape. A site that has been in use for more than 5000 years as a place of burial and assembly, it grew to fame as the legendary inauguration site of the ancient High Kings of Ireland. From its rolling slopes one can see all the way to the other great sites of the Boyne Valley, including Loughcrew Cairns, the Hill of Slane, Trim Castle and beyond. In later centuries it remained the focus of Gaelic identity and remains to this day the beating heart of Ireland.

Tara was an important site long before the High Kings. A passage tomb known as Dumha na nGiall (meaning ‘the mound of the hostages’) is the oldest visible monument and dates from around 3,000 BC. However, Tara became truly significant in the Iron Age (600 BC to 400 AD) and into the Early Christian Period. In 433 St. Patrick, on the nearby Hill of Slane, lit the Paschal fire in defiance of the Pagan King of Tara. Tara was the royal centre of Mide (meaning ‘the middle kingdom’), the fifth province of ancient Ireland. It incorporated the present Co. Meath and what is now Westmeath and large parts of Cavan and Longford.

A 1km bank and ditch encircles the summit of the hill and some of its main monuments. It is known as Rath na Rí (Fort of the Kings) and was constructed in the Iron Age. Intriguingly, the bank is on the outside and the ditch is on the inside, which suggests a ritual boundary rather than a practical defensive barrier.

One of the most interesting monuments at Tara is the Lia Fáil (Stone of Destiny), which is a standing stone located within an area known as the Forrad (The Royal Seat). This was the inauguration stone of the Kings of Tara. According to tradition, when a true Irish or Scottish King placed a foot on Lia Fáil it cried out to announce his rightful reign.

Tara was finally abandoned, in 1022, by the then High King of Ireland Mael Shechlainn. However the hill has always retained its importance to the Irish identity.

Day 3 Of Our Ireland’s Ancient East Tour Brings Us To The Historic Town Of Kells, Co. Meath To Visit The Spire Of Llyod ...
03/03/2026

Day 3 Of Our Ireland’s Ancient East Tour Brings Us To The Historic Town Of Kells, Co. Meath To Visit The Spire Of Llyod 🤩

This is Ireland’s only inland lighthouse, located just outside Kells, was designed by Henry Aaron Baker designer of the King’s Inn, Dublin for Thomas Taylour, First Earl of Bective, in memory of his father (also Sir Thomas Taylor) in 1791 and provided work during the time of a local famine. As a large monument visible from miles around, it was also a symbol of Lord Headfort’s wealth and power as one of the senior Anglo-Irish landlords.

The plaque reads: ‘This pillar was designed by Henry Aaron Baker Esq. architect was executed by Mr. Joseph Beck stone cutter Mr. Owen Mc Cabe head mason Mr. Bartle Reilly overseer Anno 1791’.

The Spire is said to have been used to view horse racing and the hunt in the 19th century (although the Kells racecourse itself wasn’t built until after the tower) Inside there is a 164-step spiral staircase, with a central protective cage. The plaque on the east side of the Spire carries the Headfort Coat of Arms with the family crest – Consequitur quodquinque petit -(‘He follows what he seeks’).

From the hill one can see magnificent views of the surrounding countryside as far as the Mourne Mountains in County Down, Northern Ireland on a clear day.

The spire stands on the site of an Iron Age ring fort but evidence is mounting to show that the site dates further back to the Bronze Age. Recent geophysical scans of the hill show a massive hillfort of concentric ditches ringing the summit of the hill.

The hill was known as Mullach Aiti, which graduates to Mulloyde and to the current day Lloyd. The Hillfort guarded the approaches from the Kingdom of Bréifne (Cavan) to the ancient Kingdom of Midhe (Meath).

The legendary Queen Maeve (Medbh) was said to camp here with her armies on her way to steal Ulster’s prize stud bull in the story of Táin Bó Cúailnge (“The Cattle Raid of Cooley”).

Edward Bruce, brother to King Robert Bruce of Scotland, also camped here following his victory at the Battle of Kells in 1314, as part of his abortive invasion of Ireland.

Day 2 Of Our Ireland Ancient East Tour Brings Us To Slane, Co Meath At The Beautiful Site Of The Hill Of Slane 🤩 🏰 As a ...
02/03/2026

Day 2 Of Our Ireland Ancient East Tour Brings Us To Slane, Co Meath At The Beautiful Site Of The Hill Of Slane 🤩 🏰

As a location more recently associated with the presentation of world-class music concerts, Slane village, which is located on the north-eastern bank of the Boyne River, and just 4 km (2.5 miles) west of the important prehistoric burial sites of Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange, has a much earlier ancient connection to the mass gathering of peoples for the purposes of worship.

To the north of the village, at a height above sea level of 153 meters (c.500 feet), stands the Hill of Slane. With its spectacular views in all directions across the surrounding countryside, from its summit can be seen the Hill of Tara, which is 21 kilometres (13 miles) to the south-west. It was on the summit of the Hill of Slane in AD 433 that St. Patrick is recorded as having lit the first Paschal fire, a symbol of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, in defiance of an order from the pagan High King, Laoghaire, who resided at Tara. A beautiful fresco painting, from the 1880s, by Vincent Waldré, representing ‘St. Patrick Lighting the Paschal Fire on the Hill of Slane’, can be seen on the ceiling of St. Patrick’s Hall in Dublin Castle.

A monastery was founded on the hill in the 6th century by St. Erc, the first Bishop of Slane, who was consecrated by St. Patrick and who died, aged 90, in the year AD 514.

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27/02/2026

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27/02/2026

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