#Finnbheara

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Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) | Co Galway

Cnoc Meadha is a hill west of Tuam, Co Galway. It is said in legend to be the residence of Finnbheara, the king of the Connacht fairies. Of two large cairns on the hill, one was thought to be the burial-place of Finnbheara and the other of (the other) Queen Medb, whose name may be transformed in the name Cnoc Meadha. Knockma Hill is topped with prehistoric cairns. G. H. Kinahan wrote of the…

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what is it with me and fairy monarchs who are associated with the land & liminal spaces

[finnvarra]

is it her? his knuckles are adorned with gold so deep it is brown. it doesn’t even glimmer: it glummers. the overcoat he wears is creaking black, his scraggly moustache ends in two fine points. he wears a hat upon his head, and the peak is just long enough to shield one half of his ghostly face in velvet darkness.  her hair is different. her face is softer, brighter, shinier. is it her? “it’s about the risk. you’ve to make a bet.” finnbheara says it roughly, insistently. sniffs his rough finger, twirls his moustache. “that’s how it works. you bet something important. i do too. you guess which card is the queen of hearts.” he’s brisk. pulse burning. eyes lighting. but - his hands are sure. this is his barrel, his pub, his galway. gaillimh. they’re speaking in english now. funny how things change.  “and when i win, you’re dead. you owe me the forfeit.”  is it her? 

@mayveh

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Here are the best 10 most remarkable places in Ireland:

Here are the best 10 most remarkable places in Ireland:

Place Documentary,

1. Sacred Cross Nunnery

Sacred Cross Monastery is situated in Co Tipperary. It's a perfectly reestablished church where there are a few relics were kept ie. the Genuine Cross which was brought here in 1233. It likewise turned into a position of medieval journey. You can even now visit it since it's a dynamic area. At 2pm each Wednesday and Sunday there are free guided visits.

It's a decent case of the Irish Gothic craftsmanship. Shockingly it was deserted yet in 1880 turned into a National Landmark. It took an additional 80 years to get back its unique shape.

2. Kilmacduagh Round Pinnacle

Kilmacduagh Round Pinnacle is situated in Co Galway and it's really the tallest round pinnacle on the planet. It's a truly noteworthy sight since it's 34m tall and it has a lean like the Inclining Tower of Pisa. This ascetic site isn't as prominent as Clonmacnoise in spite of the fact that it's more seasoned than that; from the seventh century.

On the off chance that you might want to see the exhibition hall room and the encased territories at that point there is a key which you can get in the home over the street. Know that the memorial park is still being used so please demonstrate regard when guests are around.

3. Meet the jackasses

Likely not the most famous place in Ireland but rather it's as yet worth to visit. In District Plug, only outside of Liscarroll you will discover the Jackass Haven. There are roughly 3600 jackasses and quiet were saved in the previous 28 years. In the event that you go to Ireland with kids don't miss this place since youngsters adore jackasses. They are truly adorable and they truly acknowledge embraces and petting.

It's allowed to visit. Open from Monday to Friday between 9.00am to 4.30pm; Saturday and Sunday from 10.00am to 5.00pm, on Bank Occasions between 10.00am to 5.00pm.

4. Father Ted's Home

When I lived in Ireland I generally viewed the sitcom called Father Ted. I believe it's totally splendid. Fortunately you don't need to go to Rough Island (it's simply fiction at any rate) you just need to go to Province Clare, to Glenquin.

It isn't so much that convoluted to discover it. Here are the bearings to Father Ted's home: you will discover it on the Killinaboy to Boston Street. From Corofin the most effortless alternative to take the R476 to Killinaboy. You will see a destroyed church, you need to turn right then past the school. It will be a stream to your left side and on the off chance that you take after the street you will discover the house on the left.

You can have a tea there which you will always remember. They make heavenly darker bread, scones, natively constructed jams and sweets. They will likewise reveal to you the account of their Dad Ted encounter. Father Ted's Home had some acclaimed visitors too ie. Steven Spielberg. In the event that you need you can partake on a guided voyage through the ranch as well.

5. Seals in Ireland

Ireland is an extraordinary place to spot seals, particularly when you visit the Aran Islands. On the island of Inishmore, on the shoreline called Portmurvy where a province of seals live. They look like enormous shakes so you need to watch them deliberately until the point when they flip their tails or they move. They truly like "sunbathing" here.

Step by step instructions to discover Portmurvy shoreline: You'll locate a side street to the directly amongst Kilronan and Eoganacht that will lead you to a long shoreline. One of them is Portmurvy where the seals live.

6. Knockma and its pixie legend

As indicated by the legend, Pixie Lord of Connacht called Finnbheara lived and assembled his fortification in Knockma Woods. The Ruler of Connacht called Maeve is covered at the highest point of Knockma Slope. There's additionally an intriguing story behind the greenery secured stones of Knockma - in 1846-47 amid the potato starvation individuals were reprimanded for irritating the stones which caused the starvation itself.

Knockma Woods is found quite Province Galway and you can go for a dazzling stroll there. The vast majority of the trail is tough however it's truly justified regardless of a visit. When you achieve the highest point of the slope you will see truly baffling pixie fortifications, stone dividers and stone structures too. The view is completely magnificent from here. Near the carpark you can likewise observe the remaining parts of Castlehackett.

7. Dunbrody Nunnery

Dunbrody Nunnery is an awesome Cistercian Monastery which is 800 years of age. It's in Region Wexford and there's likewise a wonderful garden that you can visit. Give yourself a lot of time to visit the convent and the garden on the grounds that there are numerous things to see.

On the off chance that you get worn out after a long walk then you should visit the beautiful lunch nook. In the event that you visit it with youngsters make sure to watch out for them all the time on the grounds that the fences are entirely high. You can visit Dunbrody Convent from Mid May until Mid September.

8. Barack Obama and Ireland

There is a little Irish town called Moneygall in District Offaly that is really Barack Obama's genealogical home where the Kearney family lived. He went by Moneygall in 2011 and from that point forward the tourism is blasting around the local area.

There are better places around the local area that are associated with Obama ie. the tribal burial ground in Cullenwaine and the familial church in Templeharry.

9. Blennerville Windmill

Blennerville Windmill is situated in Province Kerry and it's over 200 years of age. Trust it or not it is as yet working and it's the biggest plant in Ireland.

It was really worked in 1800 and tragically it was in a truly terrible state by 1846 yet fortunately the Tralee Urban Board got it and remodeled it in 1981.

There is additionally a guest focus where you can see the flour making procedure and apparatus. It's truly intriguing. The most straightforward approach to arrive is to drive from Tralee towards Dingle on the N86 for about a mile. When you cross the extension you will see the plant and afterward you need to turn left.

10. Mummies in Dublin

Truly, you read it in that spot are mummies in Dublin, in St. Michan's Congregation. There is additionally an organ there evidently played by Handel. There are many individuals who went by the congregation's sepulchers, even Bram Stoker who made the Dracula stories.

There are five long internment vaults where individuals from Dublin's most persuasive families were covered like the Shears siblings. The consistent dry air helped the mummies remain in this state. It's an exceptionally weird yet fascinating background

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Uonaidh-Mebd and Finvarra, Rulers of the Seelie Court

Queen and King of the Seelie Court of Fae, the one known as Oona-Mab or Uonaidh-Mebd rules alongside her husband, known as Finvarra or Finnbheara. Their seat is Cnoc Meadha, or Knockma Hill, beneath which their Court resides. Accessed through a cleft-tree Fae Gate nearby their Court is inarguably the largest and longest established of all courts, hence Uonaidh-Mebd and Finvarra’s positions as High Queen and King of all Fae. Uonaidh is said to have taken the name Mebd as an addition to her usual preferred moniker out of respect when the human queen died and was buried in a cairn atop the hill. Indeed of all Courts the Seelie have a fair respect for humankind, though, since the Secession of the Fae, the rulers themselves have kept stringently to the laws of it, and had no direct contact with humans.

Interestingly of the Fae Courts, Uonaidh-Mebd and Finvarra rule in a true partnership, something only matched by Na deirfúireacha na Morrignach of the Unseelie Court (their dark mirror) and Sétanta and Emer who rule the Court of Hounds and the Court of Fatal Fordings (twinned courts for twinned purposes). Even the Summer Court, which is ruled by a pair, is not ruled in perfect partnership, with Titania-Brighde having taken the reins of rulership from her husband for several hundred years now. This is considered by many to be a perfect example of why they rule the Court - they exist in balance rather than in rivalry, just as all Seelie should (even if they do not always succeed).

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(Read about Uonaidh Here, Finvarra Here, and Cnoc Meadha/Knockma Here. I hate that I have to include this but PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THE IMAGE SOURCE OR MY CAPTION.) 

[rhaegars]

Because you are magic, Aoibheal/Finnbheara.

Princes watch, wait. Sometimes King, she ignores him for another of four. 

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Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) | Co Galway

Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) | Co Galway

Cnoc Meadha is a hill west of Tuam, Co Galway. It is said in legend to be the residence of Finnbheara, the king of the Connacht fairies. Of two large cairns on the hill, one was thought to be the burial-place of Finnbheara and the other of (the other) Queen Medb, whose name may be transformed in the name Cnoc Meadha. Knockma Hill is topped with prehistoric cairns. G. H. Kinahan wrote of the…

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Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) | Co Galway

Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) | Co Galway

Cnoc Meadha is a hill west of Tuam, Co Galway. It is said in legend to be the residence of Finnbheara, the king of the Connacht fairies. Of two large cairns on the hill, one was thought to be the burial-place of Finnbheara and the other of (the other) Queen Medb, whose name may be transformed in the name Cnoc Meadha. Knockma Hill is topped with prehistoric cairns. G. H. Kinahan wrote of the…

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Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) | Co Galway

Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) | Co Galway

Cnoc Meadha is a hill west of Tuam, Co Galway.

It is said in legend to be the residence of Finnbheara, the king of the Connacht fairies. Of two large cairns on the hill, one was thought to be the burial-place of Finnbheara and the other of (the other) Queen Medb, whose name may be transformed in the name Cnoc Meadha. Knockma Hill is topped with prehistoric cairns.

G. H. Kinahan wrote of the place:

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Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) | Co Galway

Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) | Co Galway

Cnoc Meadha is a hill west of Tuam, Co Galway.

It is said in legend to be the residence of Finnbheara, the king of the Connacht fairies. Of two large cairns on the hill, one was thought to be the burial-place of Finnbheara and the other of (the other) Queen Medb, whose name may be transformed in the name Cnoc Meadha. Knockma Hill is topped with prehistoric cairns.

G. H. Kinahan wrote of the place:

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Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) – Co Galway

Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) – Co Galway

Cnoc Meadha is a hill west of Tuam, Co Galway.

It is said in legend to be the residence of Finnbheara, the king of the Connacht fairies. Of two large cairns on the hill, one was thought to be the burial-place of Finnbheara and the other of (the other) Queen Medb, whose name may be transformed in the name Cnoc Meadha. Knockma Hill is topped with prehistoric cairns.

G. H. Kinahan wrote of the place:

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Knockma Hill (Cnoc Meadha), Co Galway

Knockma Hill (Cnoc Meadha), Co Galway

Cnoc Meadha is a hill west of Tuam, Co Galway. It is said in legend to be the residence of Finnbheara, the king of the Connacht fairies. Of two large cairns on the hill, one was thought to be the burial-place of Finnbheara and the other of (the other) Queen Medb, whose name may be transformed in the name Cnoc Meadha. Knockma Hill is topped with prehistoric cairns. G. H. Kinahan wrote of the…

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OH TALK ABOUT FINNIE'S WIFE, OONA ( una ? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SPELLINGS OF THESE NAMES. )

oona ( una / oonagh )  is the wife of finnbheara, and therefore the lady of her husbands terrains : his faerie court, the realm of death, and the daoine sidhe (magical peoples) of the west.  oona herself is an incredibly powerful goddess who elected to stay behind after the banishment of the other gods. she rules over faeries, nature, and devotion. commonly, she would be referred to as queen of the faeries.  

      " HER EYES WERE SOFT PURPLE, HER HAIR GENTLY FLOWED LIKE THE SPIDER’S WEB.”oona is the image of beauty and genteelness - for her own reasons  ( as she was unmarried and unbound at the time of the banishment of the gods )  she stayed behind in ireland, rather than travel to tír na nóg, where her life would have been much easier, surrounded by faithful friends and family. instead, she stayed.  she is quiet, generally, and elusive. given her symbols and nature, it is possible she stayed for the nation and her devotion to it ,   or for the faeries who would have died without her concerted protected ,   or perhaps  for finnbheara, this being the least likely option. whatever the reason, it was done for compassion and stability, and without her involvement a lot of creatures would have died.  so, she gave up her life of beauty and family to care for faeries and non-gods who needed her. 

this self sacrificing nature is evident in her marriage with finnbheara - he seduces mortal women and takes fascination with them, but no one outside the marriage has seen oona disgruntled. their marriage was one of moral oneness and strength through unity rather than love, but they have not since divorced, either. this would not have been unusual in the more egalitarian culture they come from. finnbheara, even while desperately in love with medb, would not dare leave his wife. i can’t guess as to the exact intimacies of their marriage :  genuine selflessness in order to provide stability, a shared political ingenuity, and a deep reverential compassion for those they rule over, surely, but these personalities obviously attract:  not every partnership necessitates a marriage. oona’s private life is exactly that :  private. we know she soothed the souls of the faeries before they could leave the underground, we know she is calm and compassionate and composed. we know her magic is a match to that of finnbheara’s, but where his is to do with challenge and chance, death and ruling - hers is to do with devotion and perfectionism - with more elements to be explored, surely. i see oona as a very melancholic figure, not in just sadness, but in that while finnbheara rages and broods that he has been abandoned and cut off from his family, from his lover, he doesn’t realize that he is not the only one who is feeling alone. oona is composed, and she is the highest ranking woman in connacht, with no equal but for finnbheara, who is unfaithful. there must be attractive sides to them both :   finnbheara has razor sharp wit and a glorious mind, he is funny, and he makes people feel special. they care about the same things. oona is brave, regal, beautiful beyond compare, and is peaceful and kind in a very warlike world. their differences are also interesting :   where finnbheara is a rogue, she is a lady. where finnbheara is gruff, she is refined. he is subversive, judgemental, and trapped in his own loneliness. oona, on the other hand, is orderly, caring, and always extending her help.   to my examination, it strikes me that its pretty fucking rough for her. she’s this amazingly talented woman with an incredible sense of self discipline, who is also caring to the extent that she gives up everyone she knows aND YET. the family she is left with is a selfish husband, no children, and the faeries who, rightly, adore her - but will never understand her. 

[finnvarra]

I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable.

memz.

          ❝   YOU   ARE   ALL   THIS   AND   MORE ,   WOMAN .    you are stubborn. arrogant.  and loud. very loud - and you never listen !   you are hard to please. you are impulsive where you ought be cautious, and blame yourself or others when there is no one to blame. you are the mother no child can grow to be, the sister i would fear to know, and the friend that i ...  ❞         his eyes sought hers ;  she was tough as steel and beautiful as gold.  for once, he did not know how to translate the beat of his heart into his mouth. he thought momentarily of oonagh ; her eyes were soft purple, her hair gently flowed like the spider’s web. to her, he would not dream of saying something so blunt. he was not her equal ;  he was her king.   but a queen ?  that was a creature one could be honest with.          ❝   because you are strong. stronger than any other i have ever known.    ❞       stable, unyielding, a conqueror.    there was nothing she could want for that would not fascinate him. there was nothing she could undertake that he would not watch with bated breath.  she would bathe the land in the scarlet hemorrhage of more complacent men before she allowed herself to lose a war. and, for his part, he would marvel at it. 

               ❝  you be demanding, you be cruel, and you ought be blue for all i care.  a queen defines her land. you understand connacht. you love it as it is part of yourself.     for this and more,    THERE   IS   NO   ONE              mortal or otherwise,  woman or warrior             WHO   CAN   COMPARE .    ❞    

[finnvarra]

I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too. ( D: I JUST WANTED TO SEND THIS ONE EVEN THO IT'S NOT ACCURATE IS IT )

                    finnbheara stands. he cannot look at her. he anchors his gaze to the ground, to the floating dust. it confuses him and hurts him that they live differently. not in the way oona and himself live differently ;  that is a curse of almosts. this is a curse of nevers. he exists in a way she did not. every passing day that he faces with immortal blood is a day rushing toward them both. a day in which some day she will be “she was” and not “she is.”  when he listens hard enough, he hears her blood pound, her muscles pluck, her hair spill. he hears her tick, sand falling through the hour glass. there are times when he has heard her throat tighten or her heart shatter. there are times he has heard her decaying before him. a grunt when she stands, the growing of a single silver hair amongst the gold.                  ❝   I   FORGET   HOW   YOUNG   YOU   ARE .    ❞     he says eventually. he is filled with guilt. 

               ❝   if deserving it was enough,   it   would   be   yours .      but   ‘ WHAT SHOULD BE ’  is anathema to   ‘ WHAT DO BE . ’     because we have always known, you and i, that it is not yours. whatever magic you deal with, it will never be yours. ❞       every duty he has ever had has hooked to his tongue. she cares for balance, but it is he who is bound by it. balance could be damned                if he could only damn it.           ❝  i think of how cruel it is that there is a world that you might conquer. a world that might welcome you, that is hidden behind something impassable and invisible as glass.  i think of this magic world being for you the way i want you to think of your being heart for me. ultimate, and unobtainable.  ❞                           YOU   FORGET   YOURSELF ,    MEDB .    you ought not be dazzled, but afraid. my magic is not yours. my affections, my counsel, my loyalties               you have this and more. but you are mortal. you do not understand. i must look savage to you, offering my love and denying your power at once.  but that is what heartbreak is.                         i am a savage master, because i have learned how to serve.    ❞    medb never would. he knows this. perhaps were she to bend to the will of immortality and magic, allow it to be her master, she would live like him. but she would not. he loves her, but he hates her, because she had damned herself, and damned him to be without her. he lives now. she does not. 

[finnvarra]

@chaied

                  ❝   HE TELLS ME YE’VE JUST DOCKED,   ❞                ‘he’ was a figure of generality. finnbheara knows the difference of things : docked / undocked, generalities / specificities,   pirate queen /  normal mortal.              ❝   rough seas out there. i’m surprised a mite like you can handle herself !   ❞                 if there was ONE THING for which he ought be known, surely it was his love of catalyscism . . . he was terrible in his riles, and his riles were terrible only to draw forth interesting people.