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...

The festival of Halloween - which we celebrate on 31st October every year - is often said to have its roots in the 'Celtic' tradition of...

'...Where Uladh’s sons were wont to hold The patron dance and feis of old; And stately woods then unreclaimed Where farmers now the...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

(nb. this article was originally posted 20th April 2020, but has since been updated in 2021 & 2025) In Muirchú's account of the life of...

The term 'Hagstone' (also known by a variety of other names such as as 'witchstone', 'holeystone' or 'luckystone'), is generally taken to...

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...

A little unexpected child-free time recently allowed for an unprepared hike up into the Dromara Hills, County Down & I do not regret the...

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...

'God, that is Nature superior, interrupted this dispute; for she separated the land from the sky and the waves from the land and split...

'Kingship is male; sovereignty is female' James Mac Killop in 'Myths and Legends of the Celts' Although the sovereignty 'land-goddess'...

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...