#FolkloreThursday: #Brigid founded the first convent in #Ireland on #CroghanHill.
Brigid`s sister (part of the triple goddess) #Begoibne had her smithy workshop beneath this hill and built beautiful cauldrons. St Brigid was said to have been born nearby and to have performed a miracle there so that she could cross the bogs which surround the hill.
Source: https://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/looking-at-places/kildare/saint-brigid/brigid-and-religious-life/
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#CroghanHill is the remains of an extinct volcano and rises from the Bog of Allen in the midlands of #Ireland in Co. #Offaly. Seen from #Uisnech, the pointed summit coincides with the midwinter sunrise. In pre-Christian times, #Brigid as Brig, Bree or Bri was also associated with the Hill, and the inside believed to be a magic #Otherworld called Bri Ele.

The interior of #CroghanHill in Co. #Offaly belongs to the #Otherworld of Bri Éile. This is named after Éle, a Sidhe. The men of #Ireland were at feud about that maiden. One man after another went to woo her on #Samhain and to each one this used to happen: one of his people was slain. This went on year after year until #FinnMacCool put an end to it. He killed #Aed from the #Otherworld, who had always killed someone from the followers of the courtship out of jealousy.
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: #CroghanHill is mentioned in #Irish #mythology and believed to be a portal to the #Otherworld. On the summit is this ancient pagan burial mound. In #Irish this sacred hill is called Brí Éile or Cruachán Brí Éile. Éile may come from a word meaning
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The interior of #CroghanHill in Co. #Offaly belongs to the #Celtic #Otherworld of Bri Éile. This is named after Éle, a Sidhe. One man after another went to woo her on #Samhain and to each one this used to happen: one of his people was slain. This went on year after year until #FinnMacCool put an end to it. He killed #Aed from the #Otherworld, who had always killed someone from the followers of the courtship out of jealousy. 

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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: #CroghanHill is mentioned in #Irish #mythology and believed to be a portal to the #Otherworld. On the summit is this ancient pagan burial mound. In #Irish this sacred hill is called Brí Éile or Cruachán Brí Éile. Éile may come from a word meaning
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#FolkloreSunday: The interior of #CroghanHill in Co. #Offaly belongs to the #Celtic #Otherworld of Bri Éile. This is named after Éle, a Sidhe. One man after another went to woo her on #Samhain and to each one this used to happen: one of his people was slain. This went on year after year until #FinnMacCool put an end to it. He killed #Aed from the #Otherworld, who had always killed someone from the followers of the courtship out of jealousy.
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: #CroghanHill is mentioned in #Irish #mythology and believed to be a portal to the #Otherworld. On the summit is this ancient pagan burial mound. In #Irish this sacred hill is called Brí Éile or Cruachán Brí Éile. Éile may come from a word meaning
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#FairyTaleTuesday: #CroghanHill is mentioned in #Irish #mythology and believed to be a portal to the #Celtic #Otherworld. The interior of #CroghanHill in Co. #Offaly belongs to the #Otherworld of Bri Éile. This is named after Éle, a Sidhe. The men of #Ireland were at feud about that maiden. One man after another went to woo her on #Samhain and to each one this used to happen: one of his people was slain. This went on year after year until #FinnMacCool put an end to it. He killed #Aed from the #Otherworld, who had always killed someone from the followers of the courtship out of jealousy.
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: #CroghanHill in Co. #Offaly is now on the border with Co. #Kildare and not far from the border with Co. #Laoish. Was there a supra-regional sanctuary for 3 #Celtic tribes here in the #IronAge, i.e. a (medio-)nemeton? https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1551721149821816832

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: #CroghanHill in Co. #Offaly is now on the border with Co. #Kildare and not far from the border with Co. #Laoish. Was there a supra-regional sanctuary for 3 #Celtic tribes here in the #IronAge, i.e. a (medio-)nemeton? https://t.co/BOuY4ojlH2

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: When #Brigid reached marriageable age, she decided to enter the religious life rather than get married. She travelled to #CroghanHill and asked St. Maccaille, who was a bishop and had a church here, to admit her into religious life. She was accompanied
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: An #IronAge bog body, Old Croghan Man, was found 2003 down there. He died sometime between 362 BC and 175 BC and appears to have been a #Celtic king or a man of high rank who was ritually killed. Quite possibly his last look was up here, #CroghanHill,
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: #CroghanHill is mentioned in #Irish #mythology and believed to be a portal to the #Otherworld. On the summit is this ancient pagan burial mound. In #Irish this sacred hill is called Brí Éile or Cruachán Brí Éile. Éile may come from a word meaning
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on #MythologyMonday: The interior of #CroghanHill in Co. #Offaly belongs to the #Otherworld of Bri Éile. This is named after Éle, a Sidhe. The men of #Ireland were at feud about that maiden. One man after another went to woo her on #Samhain and to each
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: Though only 234m high #CroghanHill in #Ireland commands extensive views of the surrounding midland counties, across the flat, low-lying expanse of the Bog of Allen. 
It was the place of inauguration of the chiefs of the O'Connors of #Offaly, the
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: #CroghanHill is the remains of an extinct volcano and rises from the Bog of Allen in the midlands of #Ireland in Co. #Offaly. Seen from #Uisnech, the pointed summit coincides with the midwinter sunrise. In pre-Christian times, #Brigid as Brig, Bree
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: „In the distant past #CroghanHill emerged as an island from the surrounding lakes, a sacred place where water, earth and sky met. The Hill, reminiscent of a breast, appears to have long been a place of the sacred feminine. The old #Celtic name for the
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on #FolkloreSunday in the National Museum of #Ireland - Archaeology: Bronze strainer https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1551258388285505537

For a group I`m planning the first Nua-Celtic Soul Journey to #Ireland. Do you have any suggestions for #faery forts or mounds, #magical or #legendary places along the route besides #CroghanHill, #Kildare, #Knockmaa, #Killadangan #Megalitihic Complex, #BohehStone, #AasleaghFalls, #AchillIsland, #RockfleetCastle, #GraceO'Malley'sTowerhouse, #Minaun-Heights, #KeemBay, #Carrowkeel #MegalithicCemetery, #Keshcorran, #Caves-of-Kesh, #Shee #Lugh, #Moytura, #LoughnaSuil, #Labby-Rock, #Eglone-Stone, #HeapstownCairn, #Rathcroghan, #Oweynagat, #CorleaTrackway, Hill of #Uisneach, #ArdaghHill, #KilkennyDruidGrove @kilkennydruidry.com, #Hill-of-Tara, #Moybolgue, #HillofWard, #Teltown, #Loughcrew, #Ardee, #BoyneValley, #Newgrange, #Knowth ?