Spring Water Oval Studs Aonbhar By sucking his thumb he

By sucking his thumb he inadvertently ate from the salmon of knowledge “bradán feasa” which fed from the sacred pool surrounded by nine hazels

Findias and Murias

Diarmuid and Grainne

Fionn MacCumhaill

Neolithic monuments such as New Grange and Raths such as the Grianán of Ailleach are ubiquitous in the Irish landscape

Spring Water Oval Studs Aonbhar By sucking his thumb heTobar is the Irish word for Well, Spring or Source. Many towns get their names from wells and springs with Tipperary (Tiobraid rann source of the River Ar) being one example. Wells are significant in Irish mythology being regarded as portals to the Celtic otherworld, which was believed to exist on a parallel plane to our own. It was believed you could enter this realm through water be it through the sea, lakes springs and wells. Boann, the Irish cow