@F_i_l_i
Slieve Donard - Healing Mountain
The mountain we call Slieve Donard is well-known for being Ulster's highest peak and the tallest of the Mourne Mountains. However, it was...
top of page
Search
@F_i_l_i
Oct 31, 20213 min read
Navan Fort - Ulster's Samhain Home
The festival of Halloween - which we celebrate on 31st October every year - is often said to have its roots in the 'Celtic' tradition of...
394 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Aug 5, 20216 min read
Knock Iveagh Cairn - a lost Passage Tomb?
'...Where Uladh’s sons were wont to hold The patron dance and feis of old; And stately woods then unreclaimed Where farmers now the...
347 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Aug 4, 20214 min read
Conall Cearnach & the Uí Eachach Cobo
CONALL CEARNACH 10/9/2018 0 Comments The Uí Eachach Cobo and later Magennis Lords of Iveagh claimed their descent from one of the great...
63 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Feb 16, 20213 min read
Let the Hare Sit
A short time ago I was out for a walk on a mountain near my home and I was lucky enough to watch a wild hare as it ran through the...
891 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Jan 9, 20213 min read
Why should the Devil have all the best Music? ;)
On the 1st January 2021, as we entered a period of deep cold here in Drumballyroney, my family and I visited a local lake and were...
133 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Aug 16, 20202 min read
Living Myths
I chose to title this blog 'Inner Landscapes' because it is my belief that the way in which we notice and interact with the landscapes,...
78 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Apr 24, 20205 min read
Setting Sun at Knock Iveagh - A Solar Phenomenon?
In Muirchú's account of the life of Saint Patrick there is a story about a wicked pagan chieftain by the name of Macc Cuill moccu...
569 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Dec 9, 20192 min read
Seasonal woods and herbs
Everyone is familiar with the use of Holly and Ivy around Christmas time, but in days gone by other woods and herbs were used in a...
38 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Sep 22, 20193 min read
The Hagstone in Ulster Folklore
The term 'Hagstone' (also known by a variety of other names such as as 'witchstone', 'holeystone' or 'luckystone'), is generally taken to...
530 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Sep 14, 20195 min read
Cnoc Uibh Eachach
The article below was published in An tUltach in December 1959. I found it in the McClay Library at Queens University. I have to thank An...
138 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Aug 24, 20194 min read
Aine's Cairn & Dolmen, Legananny, Co Down
A little unexpected child-free time recently allowed for an unprepared hike up into the Dromara Hills, County Down & I do not regret the...
145 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Aug 18, 20192 min read
'Rushes Cave' Court Tomb, Attical
This Court Tomb is located in the corner of a field just West of the B27 as it begins to descend into Kilkeel, close to the hamlet of...
79 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Aug 16, 20194 min read
Meaningful Co-incidences?
'God, that is Nature superior, interrupted this dispute; for she separated the land from the sky and the waves from the land and split...
431 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Aug 13, 20194 min read
Finn and the Cailleach: Slieve Gullion & Knock Iveagh - a Winter Solstice Alignment UPDATED 22/08/22
'Kingship is male; sovereignty is female' James Mac Killop in 'Myths and Legends of the Celts' Although the sovereignty 'land-goddess'...
835 views0 comments
@F_i_l_i
Aug 12, 20197 min read
'Though he goes, let him come back again.'
For some time now I've been thinking about a visit to Inishowen in Donegal, a place which is full of happy childhood memories for me. On...
177 views0 comments
bottom of page