St Bronagh's 2005

national | miscellaneous | event notice Saturday April 02, 2005 11:59 by .

Four days of pilgrimage starting May 1st

The history of a nation is "not in parlaiments or battlefields but in what people say to each other at fairs, and in how they farm, quarrel and go on pilgrimage." W.B.Yeats

St Bronagh's School of Celtic Studies, Rostrevor,County Down go on pilgrimage to places of historical and Christian interest.

Day 1:
Kells Columban site, High Crosses, C of I Museum

Day 2:
Clonfert Cathedral and grave of St Brendan the Navigator.
Ballnasloe, Harry Clarke's work in Crea Church
Loughrea, Paradise through the Stain Glass windows of the Cathedral
Kilfenora Burren Interpretative Centre, 12th century Cathedral & High Crosses
Black Head Ocean Drive and Flowers of the Burren
Corcomroe, Our Lady of the Fertile Rock, 12th century Cistercian Abbey.
Kinvara Dun Guaire Mediaeval banquet with live entertainment

Day 3
Boyle cistercian Abbey
Lough Key, "The Killarney of the West" Columban and Trinitarian Monastery sites
Strokestown Famine Museum

Day 4
Have yez no homes to go to?

Contacts: Mrs Pat Doran 048 4173 9644 (from ROI) or 028 4173 9644 (from NI)
Canon Dermot Jameson 048 4173 9728 (from ROI) or 028 4173 9728 (from NI)