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Lazy bed (Irish: ainneor or iompú; Scottish Gaelic: feannagan [ˈfjan̪ˠakən]; Faroese: letivelta) is a traditional method of arable cultivation, often used for potatoes. Rather like cord rig cultivation, parallel banks of ridge and furrow are dug by spade although lazy beds have banks that are bigger, up to 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) in width ...
Croagh Patrick is climbed by thousands of pilgrims every year on Reek Sunday, the last Sunday in July, a custom which goes back to at least the Middle Ages. Croagh Patrick is the fourth-highest mountain in the province of Connacht on the P600 listing after Mweelrea , Nephin and Barrclashcame .
Replica of the "good ship" Jeanie Johnston, which sailed during the Great Hunger when coffin ships were common. No one ever died on the Jeanie Johnston. A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.
This sculpture of a famine ship, by sculptor John Behan near the foot of Croagh Patrick, depicts the refugees as dead souls, or skeleton bodies in the rigging. County Meath. Kells, County Meath: paupers' graveyard memorial by the Spire of Lloyd. County Monaghan. Clones: Famine Graveyard.
Pilgrims climbing Croagh Patrick on Reek Sunday. Reek Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Cruaiche), Garland Sunday or Crom Dubh Sunday (Irish: Domhnach Crom Dubh) is an annual day of pilgrimage in Ireland. On the last Sunday in July, thousands of pilgrims climb Ireland's holiest mountain, Croagh Patrick (764 metres) in County Mayo.
The annual Christian pilgrimage of climbing up Croagh Patrick mountain (2,504 ft) in Mayo, Ireland was cancelled on Sunday due to treacherous weather conditions and poor visibility. Still, several ...
Murrisk lies at the foot of Croagh Patrick and is the starting-point for pilgrims who visit the mountain. Every year, on the last Sunday of July, thousands of people converge on the village to make the pilgrimage. There is a small interpretive centre in the village, which focuses on Croagh Patrick.
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