I had Glendalough to myself this morning. All the history & beauty in one location still blows me away after all the years visiting this site ♡
#speirghorm #ireland #history #archaeology #wicklow
I watched this beautiful bumble for quite a while today...
◇ Howth coast, Dublin
#stunday #bees #nature #macro #photography
In Cumbrian dialects, thimble-flower is foxglove, tod is fox, bummel is bee in lore, faeries gave a fox, foxglove petals to put on it's toes - the fox's gloves - to raid the hen house without being heard more in my: 'Folklore of the Lake District' #folkloresunday 📷 Alan McFadyen
In Cumbrian dialects, thimble-flower is foxglove, tod is fox, bummel is bee
in lore, faeries gave a fox, foxglove petals to put on it's toes - the fox's gloves - to raid the hen house without being heard
more in my: 'Folklore of the Lake District'
#folkloresunday
📷 Alan McFadyen
Happy #FlowersonFriday!
Look at these beauties! ♡
◇ Botanic Gardens, Dublin
#nature #bloomscrolling #springtime
Spotted yesterday in the Botanic Gardens in Dublin
First bee I've seen this year with pollen sacs on hind legs!
And the season begins! ♡
#InsectThursday #nature #photography #macro #bees #springtime #bloomscrolling
For #StandingStoneSunday
Taken last week at Loughcrew, Co.Meath
#Ireland #archaeology #history #photography
St David is seen blessing a straw skep of bees being brought by a monk in a wheel barrow by ship from Wales into Ireland
Folklore describes #StDavid granting Irish monk Modomnoc permission to bring bees from his monastery in #Wales to #Ireland in the 6th century
David prayed that bees would flourish in Ireland from that day forth
Thank you St David! ♡
#StDavidsDay #folklore #tradition #stainedglasssunday #bees
My reflection in Walter De Maria’s Seen/Unseen Known/Unknown
◇Naoshima, Japan
#Round #Blueskyartshow
A 5000-year-old doorway!
◇ Seefin Passage Tomb, Wicklow Mountains
#archaeology #history #heritage #culture #Ireland #nature
The garden is giving again
Pure joy! ☆
#nature #spring #outdoors #bloomscrolling #purplefriday #plants #gardening #pollination #bees
Fáilte!
The rain stopped for just long enough to fully take in this special example of Neolithic art ♡
It's found inside Cairn T in Loughcrew, an area known as 'Sliabh na Cailleach' or 'Mountain of the Witch' & is 5000 years old
☆♡☆
#history #archaeology #folklore #heritage #Meath #Ireland
Love these!
How beautiful! I must pay a visit!
As well as #StValentine's connection with romantic love, he is also said to be patron saint of beekeepers, charged with protecting beehives and ensuring the sweetness of honey...
#Honey being a synonym for a beloved...
Happy Valentine's Day ♡
#folklore #legend #love #bees
Today is #StGobnaits feastday 💛
A beloved woman whose story is mostly known via #folklore she has inspired as a fierce warrior, tenacious female & patroness of the #bees
But Ireland's landscape remembers her. Holy sites & townlands bear her namesake across #Ireland to this day
#LegendaryWednesay
Looking forward to speaking at the launch of #FéileGhobnatan in Ballyvourney #Cork on Friday ✨
A weekend dedicated to the patron saint of the #bees 🐝
What's not to love! 💛
#festivals #ireland #speirghorm #gaeltacht #irishfestivals #folklore #béaloideas #countycork
@udarasnag.bsky.social
#Brigid, the Celtic goddess, is said to have brought bees to Ireland from her apple orchards in the Otherworld, providing a nurturing foodstuff, sweetness & a healing agent through her honey ✨💫
#FolkloreSunday #Imbolc #StBrigid #CelticGoddess #Folklore #Ireland #honey #myth #legend #fire #bees
Agus tú féin...agus tá an ghrian amach inniú chomh maith (well, ag an am seo ar aon nós!!)💫🔆
Today 1Feb is #Imbolc, the start of Spring & celebration of #Brigid - celtic goddess & Irish saint
It's a magical coming together of folk traditions from making crosses, Biddy Boys & the placing of a brat bhríde
This is her #holywell in #Kildare, said to be her hometown
Happy #StBrigidsDay x
It would be wonderful if other people shared photos of Sheela-na-Gigs found locally!
#sheelanagigs #photography #archaeology #history #heritage #stonecarvings #femalefigure #medieval #ireland #britain
Bees were once described as 'Coorus craiturs’ and have played their role in the history and folklore of Shropshire. You can read more about this lore by following the link below. 🐝 🐝 🐝
nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-...
#Folklore #History #Bees #Beelore #Folkbeliefs
So awful that it was destroyed...but so good you have a record of it. Thanks for sharing. She's a fine Sheela (Síle)!
A 'Sheela-na-Gig' carving found at St Gobnait's Church, Ballyvourney, Co. Cork
'Sheela-na-Gigs' have evoked much mystery in terms of their use, meaning & symbolism
They are carvings of naked females found on buildings between 11th-16th c.
One belief (which I favour) is that they symbolise fertility, others say they ward off evil spirits 💫
#LegendaryWednesday #WyrdWednesday
An Irish tradition on #NewYearsEve that says you should open the back door to let the old year out & when midnight strikes, open the front door to let the new year in!
Happy New Year ♡
#legendarywednesday #wyrdwednesday #irishfolklore #Ireland #traditions #customs #beliefs
Photo: Co. Cork
"The Keeper of the Bees" is a beautifully illustrated book on folktales about bees and beekeeping 🐝
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/2n9z96eu
#bees #beekeeping #folktales
A Rudbeckia-hugging bumble...
#SundayYellow #YellowSunday
Taken late last summer
#photography #nature #bees #flowers
