The Stories Beneath Margaret Mckenna

Loch Goir (Lough Gur) in County Limerick is an ancient site which includes our largest Stone Circle at Grange. Associated with the Goddess Áine, her hill being close by, this area is filled with stories, including that of a medieval Earl and the rather mysterious Crom Dubh.

Fore is a place most associated with St. Feichin, his monastery and the Seven Wonders of Fore but there are connections too, to a more ancient time and to a raider who had his castle on a nearby lake. A fascinating history of Myths, Celts, Vikings and Normans.

Don't forget to check out my website www.margaretmckenna.ie for lots of my images of our mythology and my blogs on our ancient places.

Loughcrew is particularly dear to me, and is associated with the Cailleach the sovereignty Goddess, builder of landscapes. A place of Neolithic cairns filled with art and aligned with the ancient calendar days, telling us of ancestors who knew how to read the cosmos.

The feast of Bealtaine, one of the four major fire festivals of the ancient Celtic an pre-Celtic world is said to have been celebrated at Uisneach, in the centre of Ireland and a place associated with the Goddess Ériu.

Navan/ An Uaimh is one of those places with a name that reflects an ancient past, perhaps associated with a Queen of the Milesians and of a Goddess who gave her name to the River Boyne which flows its centre. More art connected to our mythology can be found on my website www.Celticmyths.ie

Kilkenny or Cill Chainnigh in Irish, is a county awash with history, from ancient sites of mythological proportions, to a Medieval city where accusations of witchcraft resulted in a tale of death by association.