13/05/2024

Bealtaine - the month of May, and Donegal has its very own ritual site named after this special period in the old Irish calendar. Up on an elevated site, near the town of Raphoe, our ramble takes us to Beltany Stone Circle, a remarkable Bronze Age structure of standing stones. Everything about this place is special- the beautiful hedgy footpath that climbs its way up, the views from the circle, stretching north, west, east and south from the hill, the dizzy mix of hawthorn, gorse, bluebell and marsh marigold, the local fairy trees, and the sense that the ghosts of our ancestors are frolicking around in the centre, as they wait for us…
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