The Equinox happens twice a year at the Loughcrew Cairns in Co. Meath. Throughout time people have gathered to honour and celebrate the sun at these ancient passage tombs, which are over 5,000 years old. Autumn's Equinox falls on September 22nd/23rd.

Birr Castle, County Offaly

Built in the 17th century by the Parson family on the site of a previous O'Carroll stronghold. The O'Carrolls, who were displaced, went on to become prominent Catholic landowners in Maryland & signatories to the American Declaration of Independence.

The Scripture Cross at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly.

Founded as a monastic settlement by St Ciarán mid-6th century, it's one of the oldest Christian sites in Ireland.

One day the monks of Clonmacnoise saw a ship sailing over them in church. An anchor dropped, and a man 'swam' down to free it. When the monks caught him, he cried, "Stop for you are drowning me!" They let him go and the flying ship sailed on.

Almost all rivers in Celtic Europe have female names, reflecting the maternal deity to whom the river belonged. In Ireland the Boyne was owned by Boann ('white cow of plenty'). Sequana presided over the Seine, while the Marne derives its name from Matrona ('divine goddess')

The very creative tribal names of the ancient Celts:

The Unbending Ones (Regini)
The Horse People (Eceni)
Army of Many Rivers (Corieltauvi)
The Water-Rat Kings (Durotriges)
She-Wolves Looking for a Home (Volcae Tectosages).

Follow the chain thread to the start to read on October to November and end of harvest.
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"To me, to my house, you shall come after your death." - Donn, Lord of the Dead, ruler of Samhain - 9th century Irish manunoscript.

Donn, 'the dark one', was the ancestor deity of the pre-Christian Gaels - On Samhain he summons the dead to his fortress at Bull Rock.

On Samhain Eve in the Irish Annals: "High King Tigernmas and three quarters of his army died while worshiping Crom Cruach", a wizened god, hidden by mists. Crom's worship ceased when St Patrick destroyed his stone idol with a blow from his staff.

The Fear Dorcha ('the dark man') is a mysterious, malignant fairy in Irish lore. Perhaps the most feared entity in the myths, he is 'the predator of the weak and enemy of the strong.' Servant of the Queen of the Dead, he is the chief agent of mortal abduction.

Teine Sídhe are the Irish version of the Will O' The Wisp. The name translates as "Fairy Fire". These fairies were fond of darting about in peat bogs, leading those hypnotised by their flickering flames to a marshy grave.

St Patrick, St Brigid, St Colmcille,

Protector Saints of the Irish

Who are in Heaven,

Protect & pray for us.

The swearing of oaths on a saint's relic was common practice in early Ireland. The dead ancestor or saint acted as a witness to the promise, so if broken, they would incur the fury of the dead!

Old Irish for relic, minn, became modern Irish for oath, mionn.

Under Brehon law, dead ancestors could be called upon to judge in property disputes. One law describes how a claimant to the land must walk over the family burial mound without injury or death. The dead would repel outsiders, but support their own descendants.

"The ancient Irish believed the dead were repositories of wisdom and lore [and] would return to speak to their descendants."

Etymology of Fianna: derives from 'wēd-nā', related to OIr. fíad 'wild, game, wood', OEng. wāð 'hunt' and OBret. guoid 'wild'. The ancient roving band of warriors functioned as sovereigns of pre-agrarian Celtic society, thus the connection to forests & the hunt.

The Instructions of King Cormac states: "everyone is a fían(na) until he becomes a property owner" - This points to a rite of passage in medieval Ireland where a young man crossed from one community to another, from a member of a fighting band, to a settled farmer.

Cernunnos on the Gundestrup Cauldron (Jutland, 150 BC).

Seated between a deer and a wolf this horned figure is thought to be a totem god of the Celtic war-bands. The Stag god, as lord of wild animals, provided the royal hunter with prey and guaranteed his authority.