Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: On the Isle of Man the #Berrey Dhone (Brown Berry) lived either on top of North Barrule Mountain or inside it. Like other forms of the #Cailleach, this hag or witch was an Amazonian giant, and her rocky heelprint can still be seen on the mountainside.
Source: Ali Isaac #Celtic
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: Cronk ny Arrey Laa is a hill in the south west of the Isle of Man and according to @oldweirdbritain traditionally the usual home of the #Manx weather spirit „Old Woman of Gloominess“ (aka #Caillagh Ny Groamagh).
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on the Isle of Man: The summit of Cronk ny Arrey Laa is one of the few places anywhere with views of what #Manx people call "the six kingdoms" (Mann, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Heaven), with some adding a seventh "kingdom", Neptune (the sea).
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronk_ny_Arrey_Laa
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on the Isle of Man: A humble gift to the „Old Woman of Gloominess“ (aka #Caillagh Ny Groamagh) at the top.
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in Glen Rushen, Isle of Man: John Rhys supposes that it is to Glen Rushen the Fenodyree from the tale „The Stone mover“ has gone off to.
In the folklore of the Isle of Man, the Fenodyree is a hairy supernatural creature, a sort of sprite or #fairy (#Manx: ferrishyn), often carrying out chores to help humans, like the brownies of the larger areas of Scotland and England.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenodyree
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in Glen Rushen, Isle of Man: In one tale, the "Phynnodderee" appears as a former #fairy (sing. Manx: ferrish; pl. ferrishyn), a Knight of the Fairy Court. He was transformed into a grotesque satyr-like appearance as punishment, after falling in love with a human girl from Glen Aldyn and skipping attendance of the royal high festivities of the harvest held by his own kind at Glen Rushen.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenodyree
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on the Isle of Man: „The now commonly known '"Real" Fairy Bridge', shown as the "Fairy Bridge" on old Ordnance Survey maps, is located in the parish of Braddan across the Middle River near the footpath from Oakhill to Kewaigue.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Bridge_(Isle_of_Man)
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on the Isle of Man: „Cronk ny Merriu is a coastal promontory fort with defensive ditch and rampant. The high ground location offers good views of the surrounding coast. The small size of the fort and poor access to water, would have meant it could not hold out long in the event of a raid.“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronk_ny_Merriu
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on #HillfortsWednesday in Northern #Ireland: The inaugural landscape of Cráeb Telcha, modern Crew Hill, has been variously translated as ‘the spreading tree of the hill’ (O’Donovan 1856, 750; O’Laverty 1880, 295), ‘the tree of the mound’ (Lucas 1963, 25), ‘the tree of the small hill/hillock’ (Warner 1991, 40), and ‘the branch of the hill’ (FitzPatrick 2004, 37–8). Lucas has shown that the place-name element cráeb, although literally meaning ‘branch’, is sometimes used as a synonym for bile (sacred tree)
Source: Archaeological Evaluation of the Inaugural Landscape of Crew Hill (Cráeb Telcha), County Antrim.pdf
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on #HillfortsWednesday at the remains of the inaugural Landscape of Cráeb Telcha, modern Crew Hill, Northern #Ireland: „The King would turn around three times reciting an oath with his foot upon the stone as part of the ceremony. This was common practice at other sites such as Dunadd Fort in Scottish Dalriada, the stone of the Magennis in Newry , and also at Portrush where the stone later became known as the Witch's Chair.”
Source: http://www.dalaradia.co.uk/?page_id=44
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at the #Irish National Heritage Park, Ferrycarrig, County Wexford, #Ireland
An Ri Thech The Royal House, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at the #Irish National Heritage Park, Ferrycarrig, County Wexford, #Ireland
An Ri Thech-The Royal House, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at the #Irish National Heritage Park, Ferrycarrig, County Wexford, #Ireland
This building is part of a reconstruction of a late #IronAge ringfort, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: #Carman was said to have been one of the earliest rulers of #Ireland, a mighty but destructive sorceress whose three sons were equally distressing: darkness (Dub), wickedness (Dothur), and violence (Dian). Together they maliciously blighted Ireland’s corn until the people of the goddess #Danu, the #TuathaDéDanann, mustered sufficient magic to drive Carman’s sons from the land.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/McDonaghNikki/status/1238101988900036608?t=ch_aG-MOCVxir6YQ_ZYSiA&s=09
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: The #TuathaDéDanann sent a bard against #Carman, but he failed to stop the destructive energy of this sorceress. Then a satirist came, but he too failed. Finally the sorceress Bé Chuille cast a spell sufficient to undo Carman’s. Upon hearing that her sons had been killed, Carman died of grief.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/TheMythologyMa1/status/1358465329463242752?t=mhvENCdogdPqRFE57yIkEA&s=09
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Despite the enmity between the #TuathaDéDanann and the mighty but destructive sorceress #Carman, a great festival was staged in her honor, called the Óenach Carman, whose site has been variously located on the Curragh in Co. #Kildare and on the plains of the River Barrow in the same county, suggesting that she was a force to be propitiated. Similar festivals were also staged in honor of the goddesses Tailtiu and Tlachtga. As earth goddesses, they may have represented the dying vegetation that fed humanity, suggesting an ancient connection of such goddesses to the harvest season.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/irishspiritmag/status/1582763488744988672?t=E464EIMQHl34zv-S8-G11A&s=09
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland, Co. Waterford: Dunabrattin Head is home to a ragged promontory fort that has been severed from the mainland with a ditch and a bank, creating a large promontory fort. Inside this fort, a smaller area had been isolated with a ditch and a bank.
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: St Declan's Stone in Ardmore, Co. Waterford, is a boulder burial. According to Graham Robb (The Ancient Paths) it lies at 182°, in line with #Uisneach, the spiritual center of #Ireland, and Malin Head.
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: “According to oral tradition, Sliabh na mBan ("Mountain of Women") is named after the women who raced each other up the slopes for the hand of marriage of #Fionn Mac Cumhaill. According to the Druids of Ireland, Fionn needed a wife. His philandering was the cause of national scandal and bloodshed. To avoid favouritism the druids decided that the winner of a race of eligible females to the top of Slievenamon would become his bride. His fancy was the beautiful Gráinne (paradoxically meaning "the ugly one") daughter of the High King, Cormac Mac Airt. Through sorcery he ensured that his favourite would win.”
Source: https://www.theapplefarm.com/newsletter/0833.html
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: “A darker story, dating from the eight century, tells of the engagement of Sabia to Fionn at the Sidhe ar Feimhin (this being a fairy palace at the peak of the mountain, where the cairn of rocks now lies) which was also the home of her father Bodhbh Dearg, king of the Munster Tuatha de Danann (a mythological race of Irish people, once regarded as gods). She and her handmaidens were ravished and slaughtered by Fionn's rivals, the Clanna Morna. It is suggested that, in their memory, the mountain was subsequently called Sliabh na mBan Feimhin.”
Source: https://www.theapplefarm.com/newsletter/0833.htm
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: The cairn of rocks at the summit of Sliabh na mBan was believed to hide a door to the #fairy world. Here it is said #Fionn bruised his thumb trying to gain entry and thereafter each time he sucked it he acquired the gift of wisdom.
Source: https://www.theapplefarm.com/newsletter/0833.htm
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: “On Knockgrafton, in the Glen of Aherlow at the base of the Galtee Mountains, a hunchback named Lusmore overheard #faeries singing a monotonous song that went, “Monday, Tuesday.” His quickwitted ability to extend the fairy song thrilled them, and they cured his deformity. The story is a common one in Celtic lands.“
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Áine of Knockainy [Cnoc Áine], usually described as a #Fairy Queen although she is probably a diminished goddess. There are indications that she was a sun goddess, for she was connected with solar wells like Tobar Áine near Lissan in Ulster as well as being linked with the sun goddess Grian, her sister; but at other times she is described as related to Finnen, “white,” an obscure goddess of the Lough Gur region. As sun goddess, Áine could assume the form of an unbeatable Horse, Lair Derg (“red mare”).
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: “The hill (164m) of Knockainey (Irish: Cnoc Áine) is named after Áine and was site of rites in her honour, involving fire and the blessing of the land, recorded as recently as 1879.
Aine, also called Áine Chlair (Áine of the Light), is reputed to be a goddess of both the sun and the moon, and a love goddess as well. There may be connections between Áine and the similar-sounding goddess Anu.“
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Áine
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: „#Donn ("the dark one") is an ancestor of the Gaels and is believed to have been a god of the dead. In Co Limerick, a Donn Fírinne was said to dwell in the sacred hill of Cnoc Fírinne (Knockfeerina or Knockfierna). He was also associated with the weather: thunder and lightning meant that Donn Fírinne was riding his horse through the sky, and if clouds were over the hill it meant that he was gathering them together to make rain. This imagery may have been influenced by the lore of Odin and his horse Sleipnir from the Norse settlers in Limerick. Donn Fírinne was also said to appear and warn anyone who interfered with his hill. In later folklore, the name 'Donn' came to mean an 'otherworld lord' in general."
Source: Donn - Wikipedia https://twitter.com/duchas_ie/status/1037620863749812224
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: `When people are desirous to know whether or not any day will rain, they look at the top of Knockfierna in Co #Limerick, and if they see a vapour or mist there, they know immediately that rain will follow, believing that Donn, the lord or chief of the mountain, and his aerial assistants, are collecting the clouds, and that he holds them for some short time to warn the people of the approaching rain. As the appearance of mist on that mountain in the morning is considered an infallible sign that the day will be raining Donn is called Donn Ferinne –- 'Donn of Truth'.
Source: https://darkemeraldtales.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/the-mountain-of-truth-and-the-fairy-castle-of-donn-firinne/ https://twitter.com/duchas_ie/status/1037620863749812224
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Carraig Áille II is considered to be a much finer example of stone fort construction. it has a series of steps which led to the top of the wall, the walls are appoximately one metre wide as they were patrolled at night. Wooden gates were hung at the entrance.“
Source: https://www.facebook.com/LoughGur/posts/4138222002858300/
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Cnoc Greine (Holy "Hill of Grian, Hill of the sun"), Co Limerick, is according to PatriciaMonaghan a twin of Kockainy.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Cnoc Greine is the third #fairy hill of North Munster linking in with Cnoc Firinne to the east and Cnoc Aine to the south west. I have heard that a Cork Historical Society Journel from the 1880s makes reference to the fact there was a "temple of the sun" on its summit.
Source: https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/9632/cnoc_greine.html
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Fódla/Fótla met the Milesians ‘with her swift #fairy hosts around her’ on Naini Mountain, also called the mountain of Ebliu. A footnote identifies the Naini Mountain of Ebliu as the Slieve Felim Mountains in County Limerick.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slieve_Felim_Mountains
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: In Co. #Tipperary, near the borders of Co. #Limerick in #Ireland’s southwest province of #Munster, the mountain goddess #Ébhlinne was honored in the range called the Twelve Mountains of Ébhlinne (also called Slieve Felim Mountains, the Keeper Hills, and the Silvermine Mountains). The highest peak in the range is Mauher Slieve (Máthair-Shliabh), the mother-mountain, where #Midsummer celebrations in Éblinne’s honor continued until recent times. As is common with ancient goddesses adapted into a new culture, Ébhlinne was euhemerized into a queen of the region.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/RubyFaesRealm/status/1539051686827741184
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Located in North County Tipperary, the name Mauherslieve (mathair sliabh) is correctly translated “mother mountain” — although it is also referred to as sacred hill.
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: "Ebhleen was a mythological figure, married to a king of Cashel. She fell in love with her stepson and eloped with him.
Right in the heart of the Twelve Mountains of Ebhlenn (Evelyn)/Dha Sliabh Deag Ebhlinne
is a small peak called Mathair Shliabh or Mother Mountain which has a cairn of stones on top called 'the Terrot'.
Source: https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/7751/mauherslieve.html#folklore
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Ghleann na gCailleach/Glennagalliagh/Glennagalliach, Co. Clare, means ‘hag’s glen’.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Tobereevul („Well of Aeval”): #Ireland has many ancient goddesses who come into literature and folklore as #Fairy Queens. Among the most famous is #Aeval, connected with the southwestern region of #Munster and specifically with a #airy mount at Killaloe in east Co. Clare, near which a well called Tobereevul (“well of Aeval”) gushes from beneath the crag Craganeevul (“rock of Aeval”); she is also associated with the mountain Slieve Bernaugh, where she was said to have lived.
Her name means “beautiful” or “the lovely one,” but her behavior was more threatening than loving. Queen of the two-dozen #banshees of the region whose appearance predicted death, she appeared as a Washer at the Ford before disasters like the defeat of the historical hero Brian Boru; she was especially connected with the O’Brien family. Aeval judged the famous Midnight Court of the poet Brian Merriman, in which prudish Irishmen were found guilty of not being satisfactory lovers. Her rival was the sea fairy Clídna, who turned Aeval into a white cat.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on #HillfortsWednesday in #Ireland at Brian Boru’s Earthen Fort in east Co. Clare: Site of an original ringfort. Possibly abandoned when Turlough O'Conor demolished it in 1116 or when the Nornans arrived.
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Fintan's Grave is a mythological cave on the #Irish mountain (now hill) Tul Tuinde (Hill of the Wave) in the Arra Mountains (Irish: Sliabh an Ara) near Lough Derg. Supposedly, Fintan mac Bóchra waited out the Flood on this mountain.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fintan
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: The beautiful #Fairy Queen of #Munster, Úna lived in the great mound of Knockshegowna (Cnoc Sídhe Úna) in Co. Tipperary. Despite her association with Munster, Úna took as her lover the powerful fairy king #Finnbheara of the western province.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/HoganSOG/status/1307132984143876096
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on Knockshegowna, #Ireland: „One of the most famous stories of Úna, the #fairy queen of #Munster, tells how, annoyed by a drunken piper, she turned herself into a calf and, with the piper clinging to her back, made a massive leap to the shores of the Shannon River. When the piper appeared undismayed by his calf-assisted flight, Úna forgave him his bad piping and returned him to the place from which she had stolen him.“
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: According to the Bodleian Dinnshenchas, here are two theories of how the Slieve Bloom Mountains (Irish: Sliabh Bladhma) were given their name:
„Bladma or Blod, son of Cú, son of Cass Clothmín, killed the cowherd of Bregmael, the smith of Cuirche, son of Snithe, King of Húi Fuatta. Then he went in his little boat till he set up at Ross Bladma — Ross n-Áir, “Wood of Slaughter,” was its name at first. Thence he went to the mountain. Hence is “Sliab Bladma” (Bladma’s Mountain). Whence the poet said: ‘Blod, son of Cú, son of Cass Clothmín, Killed the cowherd of fair Bregmael, The smith of Cuirche Mór, son of Snithe: He set up at Ross Tíre ind Áir.’ Or it is Blod, son of Breogan, that died there; and from him the mountain of Bladma was named.“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slieve_Bloom_Mountains
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Edward J. Gwynn’s The Metrical Dindshenchas give another origin story (bleda mara “sea-monsters”) of the name of the Slieve Bloom Mountains: „Or the monsters of the sea that was not calm, beasts–ruisenda was their name–came throughout the land of the tribes, so that from them is named Sliab Bled. Blod, son of Cu, son of Cass Clothmin, slew the herd of Bregmael the smith of Curche, son of Snithe, he settled at Ross Tire Nair.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slieve_Bloom_Mountains
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: The source of the River Barrow is at Glenbarrow in the Slieve Bloom Mountains in County #Laois. The #Irish hydronym Bhearú has been derived from the Proto-Celtic *boru- ("boil, brew"), which would make it cognate with Borvo, the Celtic god of minerals and spring water.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slieve_Bloom_Mountains
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in Athy, #Ireland: „The River Barrow's name is associated to the legendary deeds of Dian Cecht, who slew three serpents found in the heart of The Morrígan's infant son and threw them into the Barrow, thus causing it to boil.“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Barrow
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in Kildare Village, #Ireland: Bran and Sceolan were the two hounds of the legendary #Fionn Mac Cumhaill
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at Carbury Hill Co. Kildare, #Ireland: In #Irish#mythology, #Nechtan was the father and/or husband of #Boann, eponymous goddess of the River Boyne. He may be Nuada under another name, or his cult may have been replaced by that of Nuada; others maintain that Nechtan may be another name for the Dagda. He inhabited the #otherworldly Síd Nechtain, the mythological form of Carbury Hill.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nechtan_(mythology)
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at Carbury Hill Co. Kildare, #Ireland: “Carbury Hill is close to the source of the River Boyne that runs by Brú na Bóinne. There are the two barrows on the hill that are dated to the Bronze Age, a motte and a tower house indicating multiple usage and settlement over time.“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbury,_County_Kildare
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at the Sidh of Beann Éadair (= Howth head), #Ireland: Aideen or Étain Fholtfhinn was a beautiful princess of the Sídh, a famous runner who was also the lover and later the wife of Oscar, grandson of #Fionn. When Oscar was killed in battle, Aideen died from grief at his loss. Her home had been the sídh of Beann Éadair, and this was where she was taken to be buried (= a portal tomb in the grounds of Howth Castle). Other traditions state that this was the tomb of Crimthan, a king of 1st century AD, and others still that the tomb is that of Étar himself
Credit @EithneMasseyLegendary #Ireland
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at the Sidh of Beann Éadair (= Howth head), #Ireland: Associated with Conn ot the Hundred Battles, who had lost his beloved wife Eithne; his son, Connla, had been taken away by a beautiful woman of the Sídh many years before and he found no comfort in the company of Art the Lone One, his other son; at the sídh of Beann Éadair (= Howth head) he met Bécuma of the Sídh.
Credit @EithneMasseyLegendary #Ireland
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#Celtic#FairyTalesTuesday: „#CúChulainn was so thoroughly vanquished in a duel that Cúroi left him on the field bound hand and foot, after having cut off his long hair, which forced CúChulainn to hide himself for a whole year in the wilds of Ulster, while Cúroi carried away to his stronghold of Caher Conree both Bláthnat and her father's cows and cauldron.“
Source: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/fim/fim04.htm
#CúChulainn's paramour, Bláthnat daughter of Menn, was the wife of the magician Cú-roi mac Dáire, who had carried away to his stronghold of Caher Conree both Bláthnat and her father's cows and cauldron. The enslaved beauty from the #Otherworld arranged for her husband to send his men away at Samhain to gather all the pillar stones of Ireland to build him a fortress in a single day. This was to allow CúChulainn to come and take vengeance for Eochaid Echbeoil '(Horsemouth's') cows and the cauldron and for shaving Cúchulainn's head and smearing it with cow dung by killing Cú-roi at #Samhain. That the way was clear was signaled by milking the cows into the stream (River Finglas, Co. Kerry), turning it white.
After that bloodshed, Cú Roí’s poet Ferchertne pushed Bláthnat over a cliff, killing himself in the process.
Sources: Ronald Hicks & Laura Ward Elder „Festivals, Deaths, and the Sacred Landscape of Ancient Ireland“ and P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/FinnClodagh/status/1555119181456150529?t=s7AFB_y_fhM7sTm-GmZ3hw&s=09
#CúChulainn and the armies battled from #Samhain until the Wednesday after Candlemass [#Oimelg] with many thousands being killed (between Gáirech and Ilgáirech--probably just southeast of Sliabh na Cailleach).
Source: Ronald Hicks & Laura Ward Elder „Festivals, Deaths, and the Sacred Landscape of Ancient Ireland“ #Celtic
#Samhain marked the end of the #Irish agricultural year. It was a time of reassembly and feasting, the harvest completed and the herds and flocks brought home from the summer pastures.
Source: Ronald Hicks & Laura Ward Elder „Festivals, Deaths, and the Sacred Landscape of Ancient #Ireland“ #Celtic
#Celtic#HillfortsWednesday: „Carraig Aille I hillfort at Lough Gur, Co. Limerick, is oval in shape and encloses the highest part of the hill. Its max. diameter is 42.7m. The walls are 3.35 – 4.26m thick and survive to 0.9m in height, but would have been much higher. There are two sets of steps on the interior to give access to the tops of the walls. The entrance is over 2m wide and has recesses to accomodate a wooden gate. Postholes were found on the outer face of the rampart suggesting that there was an outer gate.“
#Celtic#HillfortsWednesday: Cashelmore, also called Clogher Stone Fort, is a stone ringfort (cashel) and National Monument located in Co Sligo. The stone cashel walls are probably early #IronAge, but could be earlier. Restoration work took place in the 19th century.
The fort has an internal diameter of 26 m (85 ft). The walls are 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) high and 4.2 m (14 ft) thick. Five stairways lead to the top of the wall.
The entrance is called the Steward's Gate. There is a mural passage and two souterrains. The souterrains have dry stone walls and are roofed with large stone flags.
Source: Cashelmore - Wikipedia
#Carrig Hillfort for #Celtic#HillfortsWednesday: „The early #Irish laws tell us quite a lot about what we might expect to find inside a #ringfort. There was a main family house and an outhouse; there were animal pens and hencoops and sometimes beehives; a dunghill was in the centre and there would have been a variety of arm equipment, such as a plough, spades, billhooks, threshing sticks etc. Many ringforts also had a souterrain, a type of undergorund cellar which could gave been used for storing food or as a refuge from attack. The main entrance into the ringfort was often paved and was swept regularly.“
Source: Irish National Heritage Park in Wexford
#Celtic#HillfortsWednesday: Doon Fort in Doon Lough, Co Donegal, is a unique intermediate form between dun and crannóg. The fort is also known as "the Bawan" or "O'Boyle's Fort". The oval stone rampart is 45m in diameter and covers almost the entire surface of a small island. The well-preserved wall is around 5m high and 4m wide at the base. A short section of the north-west wall of the approximately 3000-year-old complex has collapsed.
A gap in the wall forms the entrance to the interior. On the left-hand side of the passage, an opening via a very narrow passageway 8m long and just over 1m high and a staircase provide access to the top of the wall. The 6m long entrance on the right-hand side is even narrower and lower. Inside the dun, four steps about 1m high lead up to the wall, which has a low parapet on the outside.
Source: Doon Fort – Wikipedia
#Celtic#HillfortsWednesday#LegendaryWednesday: Although J.P. Dalton suggested that the fort on top on Derryragh hill was the centre of the worship of the pagan idol Crom Cruach, there is no evidence to support this. The only tradition connected with the fort is about a fairy living there. It goes as follows: „A local man had caught a Leprechaun. Because it didn't help him find a treasure, he put it in an oak chest. On the evening of the 10th day, the farmer claimed: "Darragh Fort is on fire!" Only then did the "gankeynogue" (= little man) promise him a treasure if he let him out to save his family.
When the Leprechaun saw the deception, he took the opportunity to disappear. However, the farmer later overheard the "gankeynogue" tell his wife where the treasure could be found: under a stone in front of the farmhouse, where the farmer's wife had stumbled over it this morning and spilt a bucket of milk.
And right there the farmer discovered a beautiful treasure of gold.“
Source: Derryragh - Wikipedia
#Celtic#HillfortsWednesday: A hilltop settlement was built on the nearby Ramsaukopf to protect the people on the Dürrnberg. Where the settlement area was not naturally protected by steep rock faces, stone ramparts and a so-called pincer gate provided additional obstacles to attack. From the Ramsaukopf, one could see the valley settlement in the area of today's old town of Hallein in Salzburg. In addition, the access from the valley was controlled here, which led into the Ramsau Valley on the southern flank of the rocky ridge.
Source: Museum of Celts Hallein
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: A superstition is to greet the fairies (an English term for the Mooinjer Veggey ("Little People"); historically never called fairies or ferrish by the #Manx and not of similar disposition to the English #fairies) when crossing the Fairy Bridge; it is considered unlucky not to greet them.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Bridge_(Isle_of_Man)
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