The Blackstairs Remembers

There are many fantastic trails steeped in history in the Borris/Blackstairs area which can be enjoyed on foot or by bike for more information check out Billy & Fergals series of videos on utube.

Borris Broadcasts - YouTube Broadcasting from Borris, Co. Carlow, Ireland to the world.

https://youtu.be/g0okZwLvQxo?si=G580NU4T_PQ6TD-P

The Way They Lived: the vernacular heritage of the Blackstairs Mountains
Courtesy Carlow County Library

The Way They Lived: the vernacular heritage of the Blackstairs Mountains This video is one of the public awareness outputs from a research project looking at vernacular structures in three settlements in the Blackstairs Mountains,...

Available in Steemers Bunclody, Hubb16 New Ross, Sarah's kiosk Enniscorthy.

All souls Day.
The day after Samhain is all souls day.
Ireland is steeped In tradition, some we still do. It's believed the veil is thin between the living & the deceased today.

In Ireland it was believed that the souls of family members would return home on all soul's night.
Great care was taken to welcome home the souls. The house was cleaned, the fire was lit & the poker & thongs were placed in the shape of a cross on the heart.
The table was set for each departed family member with a bowl of spring water & a bowl of salt water to represent the meals we made for them.
Children would knock on doors begging for cakes in exchange for prayers. This was called soul caking.
Families would visit the graves & place a candle on each grave. A candle was also placed in the window to guide our loved ones home & the door was left unlatched.
It's believed the ancestors would come & give the gift of remembering old days & old ways & a reminder how we are linked by blood.
There was great respect for our ancestors & the wisdom they could give us on all soul's day.

The Killanne 225th commemoration of 1798 which took place in June this year.
Video is an 1 hour and 2 minutes in total. It has the ceremony at the site of Johnsons forge, the remembrance ceremony in Killanne graveyard & at the 7's monument at Killanne Village with speaker Sean Og Doyle and singing with Wlllie Moore & Internationally renouned tenor Anthony Kearns. Videio ends with some photo's of the day and music.

Killanne 1798 - 2023 225th commemoration The commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the 1798 rebellion in Killanne Co. Wexford Ireland.