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#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: `Prior to the Second Battle of Moytura, #Lugh, God of Lightning, was heartening the men of #Ireland by the magic crane dance curse. He is said that he swore by the sky, the land and the sea, among other things:
„Before the people of the Sídhe, Before Ogma I swear! Before the sky and the land and the sea, I swear! Before the Sun and the Moon and the stars, I swear! Oh warrior band, my host of battle, My troops here, the greatest of hosts like the sea, Mighty waves of golden, powerful, boiling fires, and battle lust Are created in each of you! May you seek out your foe upon the field, Embracing death in a frenzy of battle!“
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#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: The Ail na Mirean, or Stone of Divisions, is a limestone boulder standing six metres tall and estimated at weighing thirty tons. It sits on the south west side of the Hill of #Uisneach in a circular enclosure. It is said to be situated where the borders of #Ireland’s five provinces, Leinster, Munster, Connacht, Ulster and Mide met. Nowadays, there are only four provinces, ancient Mide becoming the Counties Meath and Westmeath.
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#Celtic#FolkloreSunday@uisneachfire: The Hill of Uisneach stands 183 metres tall, and is located between the villages of Ballymore and Loughanavally in County Westmeath, not far from Mullingar. Twenty counties can be seen from the summit on a clear day. Historically and mythologically, it was regarded as the centre point, or ‘naval’ of #Ireland, symbolised by the presence of a great stone called the Ail na Mirean, or Stone of Divisions.
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The bowl of a clay pipe or "dúidin" in irish. This particular style of pipe was called a workman's pipe. It is of a heavier construction than the usual ones handed out at funerals and would have had a shorter stronger stem so that it could be held it between the teeth, leaving hands free for work.
The imprint on the bowl reads "Ben Nevis - Cutty"
County Donegal, Ireland.