• Doorways to Other Worlds

    Doorways to Other Worlds

    Here is something the heritage boards don't say. Standing inside most stone circles in daylight the ancient pull is surprisingly faint. Diluted somehow. Used up. But there are exceptions.

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  • Purgatory — Is It Really on a Map?

    Purgatory — Is It Really on a Map?

    Did you know that purgatory has an address? A cave on a small island in a dark bog lake in the northwest corner of Ireland. At least it did. Until 1790, when someone filled it in!

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  • Some Things Survive By Going Underground

    Some Things Survive By Going Underground

    Some things survive by going underground. This is the story of what was buried beneath a bog lake in ancient Ulster — and why it refuses to stay down.

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  • The Mother of Demons Who Visits My Lake

    The Mother of Demons Who Visits My Lake

    The crane at the edge of the lake is not just a bird. She never was. This is what the Druids knew — and what Saint Patrick tried very hard to make everyone forget.

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  • Dead Man's Pass

    Dead Man's Pass

    A night swim across Dead Man's Pass on Lough Erne to Devenish Island with the Wild Water Witches on the September equinox. Ancient water, twenty-six drowned mourners and an intention fire on the shore

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