#Killinaboy

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SHEEL-NA-GIG, KILLINABOY, CO. CLARE by Jack Roberts

Voices of Ancient Europe: Jack Roberts — Ancestral Acupuncture

SHEELA-NA-GIG, KILLINABOY, CO. CLARE by Jack Roberts

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Irish Auto Trail-Killinaboy to Toovahera, County Clare

Irish Auto Trail-Killinaboy to Toovahera, County Clare--This travel route through County Clare begins in Killinaboy and ends in Toovahera--https://youtu.be/LhSx3oJD6a4--The route travels through Leamaneh, Kilfenora, Smithtown, and Ballyteige.

This travel route through County Clare begins in Killinaboy and ends in Toovahera. The route travels through Leamaneh, Kilfenora, Smithtown, and Ballyteige. For more of our Auto Trails and Slow Travels guides, available in print or eBook format, use one of the links below: Amazon Lulu Press Camera: Sony Active Camera FDR-X3000 Vehicle: Avis Rental 2020 Open Corsa Smithtown…

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Kells...

Kells…

County Meath, Saturday, 30th July 2022… *** *** “Three’s are important,” she said. * And they are, so we can take it that ‘ol’ stubby’ from Killinaboy does not count in our tally of round towers. *** *** The brick work whilst, perhaps, not quite polygonal is not all that far off?… Continue reading at France&Vincent

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Abandoned Church in Killinaboy, Ireland from the 1300s (earliest mention in the tax records).

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[ID: Screenshots of town names on a map. The first image contains screenshots of the towns Kill, Kilcummer, Kilcock, Killinaboy, Killavorilla, Gorey, Ratoath, Mayobridge, Incheese, Emo, Dingle, The Spa, Cornboy, Shercock, Ballylicky, Gaybrook, and Faggot Hill. The second image, the “uninspired fantasy town names”, contains screenshots of Meadowlands, Woodlands, Knight’s Town, Crookhaven, and Swords. /end ID]

New favorite pastime, looking through Irish town names in maps

Then some of them just sound like uninspired fantasy town names

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 In search of the Feminine.........Sheela Na Gig - Killinaboy Church - Co. Clare.

2018

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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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Hyperallergic: Mapping the Mysterious Ancient Carvings of Naked Women Across Ireland

The Cavan County Sheela-na-gig on view at the National Museum Ireland (all photos courtesy of John Harding, The Sheela Na Gig Project, unless noted)

I have often searched for images of ancient goddesses. Raised Catholic, I internalized an obsession with the body — especially the female body, with all its sacred and sinful potential.  Simply look up the Latin root of pudenda, the technical term for female genitalia, and you find that it comes from a Latin expression meaning “shameful parts” or just “shame.” So when I saw my first Sheela-na-gig image this past fall hanging above an entranceway in the West of Ireland, I was intrigued to find out more.

A Sheela-na-gig is an ancient stone-carved sculpture of a woman opening her vulva with her hands. There are more than 100 of them all over Ireland, many in situ on medieval castles, churches, and holy wells, though about a dozen are in museums, some of which have been hidden away in basements for years, rather than on display. In the past, these powerfully expressive sculptures have been relocated, stolen, destroyed, and even found buried in shallow graves, most likely put there by puritanical religious practitioners who were perturbed by the imagery.

The Clonmel Sheela-na-gig

No one can say for certain when, how, where, or why they originated. Currently there are no methods to properly date the sculptures, though most historians agree that they are from somewhere between the 11th and 17th centuries. Researchers are reliant on the figures’ location and context, and therein lies the challenge, as many of the medieval churches where the Sheela-na-gigs are located were built to replace former pagan sites of worship.

The sculptures vary greatly in design, style, and approach. Some are bony and skeletal, others more rounded. Typically their gaze is deep and intense, often with grimacing mouths (though a few have a slight smirk). They are usually bald, and many have protruding ribcages that seem to denote an aged nature. Their bodies tend to be disproportionately scaled, with a larger head and exaggerated vulva, emphasizing the focus on the explicit gesture of opening the vulva. The figures juxtapose barrenness and fertility, like life and death. But while there are some trends in their design, there is no “typical” Sheela.

The Fethard Wall Sheela-na-gig

Additionally, no one knows what they are meant to represent. There are a wide range of theories, seeing them as everything from fertility goddesses, to “evil eyes” warning against the sin of lust, to talismans protecting from evil, to manifestations of the Sídhe, or Irish faeries.

The Sheela-na-gig I saw was created by Irish researcher and publisher Jack Roberts, who has visited every single one of these figures throughout the Irish countryside and thoroughly documented them with hand-drawn illustrations and a map with descriptions. I was surprised that I hadn’t heard about the evocative and mysterious Sheela-na-gigs before. They weren’t included on any tourist or historical information I’ve seen. Happily, that’s changing.

This past April, the Heritage Council of Ireland released an interactive map that tracks the location of every Sheela-na-gig located throughout the island. It was made with assistance from the National Monument Service and data gathered by independent Sheela-na-gig researchers and enthusiasts. “While it may be a slight exaggeration,” Pat Reid, GIS Heritage Consultant for the Heritage Council, told me over the phone, “everyone in Ireland has a Sheela-na-gig within ten to fifteen miles from them.” He emphasized that the more people become aware of them, the more they will have pride in and look after them.

Screenshot of the Heritage Council’s interactive map of Sheela-na-gigs in Ireland

A Sheela-na-gig embedded into a wall in Bunratty (photo by fhwrdh/Flickr)

In a phone conversation with John Harding, a Welsh researcher who has tracked the sculptures in the UK and throughout Europe on his website The Sheela Na Gig Project since 1998, he told me, “if you try to nail down a Sheela-na-gig, they are slippery little buggers.” In short, if you say they are one thing, you will find examples to prove otherwise.

In fact, some researchers insist that the Sheelas are not Irish in origin at all. Harding believes they were a result of the Anglo-Norman Invasion, as there are similar sculptures in the UK and other parts of Europe decorating Romanesque medieval churches. His theory is that having a Sheela-na-gig posted atop your Irish castle wall was “a bling thing,” also pointing out that Sheela, or “Síle,” is the Irish form of the Anglo-Norman name Cecile or Cecilia.

The Killinaboy Sheela-na-gig above an entranceway (photo by Keith Salvesen/Wikimedia)

On the other hand, University College Cork lecturer of Folklore and Ethnology Shane Lehane explained via email that the highly enigmatic name Sheelah has strong Irish roots and is historically attributed to “elderly women, at the latter end of life, who had experience of the world, were custodians of inherited knowledge, played significant roles in rites of passage in the human life cycle and the cycle of the year. They acted as midwives, corpse washers, and professional mourners; they advised on herbalism … and were central officers at vernacular assemblies.” He went on to draw the connection to the Cailleach, “the old wise-woman healer, a multifaceted personification of the female cosmic agency” with deep roots in Irish mythology as simultaneously life-giving and nurturing as well as hostile and destructive. He also cites new evidence that St. Patrick had a wife named Sheelah.

While the mystery remains, Reid is hopeful that the Heritage Council map will get more people visiting and thinking about the Sheelas, which in turn will open the dialogue regarding what they were and “what they are now to us.” Roberts insists that people should “stop seeing them as negative images. I’m trying to put the positivity back into them.” With the new map, one can expect that the often peaceful and secluded settings where these figures lay will start seeing more foot traffic, as curious travelers sojourn to meet the Sheela-na-gigs themselves and come up with their own meanings.

The Heritage Council of Ireland’s interactive map tracking the location of every Sheela-na-gig is available here. 

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Leamaneh Castle - Killinaboy - County Clare - Ireland

Ce château en ruine n'est pas accessible au public mais on peut tout de même l'observer car il est situé à proximité de la route principale.

Il est composé d'une tour de cinq étages construite au XVe siècle et d'un manoir de quatre étages qui a été juxtaposé à la tour près de deux siècles plus tard.

Une légende est rattachée à ce château. Elle raconte que Mary McMahon, surnommée Red Mary à cause de sa flamboyante chevelure rouge, aurait perdu en 1651 son époux Conor O'Brien, seigneur de ce château.

Dans l'espoir de conserver ses terres, elle aurait immédiatement proposé de se marier avec un officier de l'armée de Cromwell.  Le capitaine Cooper aurait accepté son offre.

Cependant, quelques jours plus tard, elle aurait eu une dispute avec son nouveau mari et ce dernier aurait été poussé par une des fenêtres du château.  Il n'aurait pas survécu.

Red Mary était reconnue pour sa violence et sa cruauté.  Elle ne tarda pas à avoir une réputation de sorcière.

La légende dit également qu'elle aurait eu plus de 25 époux.  Après avoir tué son dernier mari, elle aurait été emmurée vivante par ses ennemis dans le creux d'un arbre et elle serait ainsi morte de faim.

On dit que le fantôme de Red Mary hanterait toujours le château de Leamaneh.

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Killinaboy (2015)

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Killinaboy...

Killinaboy…

County Clare, Wednesday, 27th July 2022… *** *** The ruined church at Killinaboy had a number of surprises in store for us. * The stump of a round tower, above, showed only a few signs of polygonal walling which is maybe one of the reasons why it is no longer standing? *** *** By far the most pleasant surprise, though, was the Sheela-na-Gig over the now door-less doorway to the church. * It is…

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Killinaboy Church - Ennis - County Clare - Ireland

Cette petite église médiévale date du XIe siècle.  Certaines caractéristiques de cette église sont vraiment uniques.

Non y retrouvons une croix de Lorraine sur le pignon de sa façade avant tandis que sur un autre mur, le corps d'une femme assise jambes écartées a été jadis sculpté dans la pierre.  Il s'agirait d'un symbole de fertilité (Sheela na Gig).

Une tour ronde se situe à proximité de cette église.  Elle aurait également été construite au XIe siècle.

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