Dare to dream, dare to leap: Rewrite your story on Ireland's mystical pathway.

Itinerary

Day One:  Fly to Dublin Airport and stay at AnnaHarvey Bed and Breakfast, Tullamore, Ireland.

Day Two:  – Dublin 8:30-9:00 departure

Dublin City – Walking Tour

Begin our tour at St. Audoen’s Church where the oldest bells in Dublin reside as well as the starting point for all pilgrimages. Then to St. Patrick’s Well and Cathedral where we will visit the Black Madonna. After lunch in downtown Dublin, we will visit Trinity College, The Book of Kells, and St. Stephen’s Green to see a famous stained-glass window by Harry Clark. Free time will be offered to walk Grafton Street and Temple Bar. Dinner in Dublin.

Dinner will be in Dublin. 

Day Three: - St. Brigid’s Cathedral and Well

Our first stop will be the Visitor’s Center in Kildare where we will have an immersive experience of Brigid as the Goddess as well as the Saint. We will visit the Cathedral and offer a prayer to the Fire Temple where the priestesses tended the eternal flame. After lunch, we will visit Solas Bhride, the place where the eternal flame is housed by the Brigatine nuns. We will visit with the nuns and walk the labyrinth behind the building.

 St Brigid's Well, County Kildare. This well is reputedly a 'healing well', one of many in Ireland. The well is still a popular place of pilgrimage where healing liturgies are often held. St Brigid's well is situated where the location of her double monastery once stood in Kildare Town, close to the Black Abbey.

Dinner will be near Anna Harvey Farm.

Day Four:  The Boyne Valley and Hill of Slane and Hill of Tara Today we will visit the Boyne Valley beginning at the Informational Center at Newgrange. We will have a walking tour of Newgrange.  Lunch will be in the café.

The afternoon will take us to the Hill of Tara where the high kings of Ireland were crowned. We will tie clooties on the Wishing Tree and conduct a ceremony in honor of the sacred marriage that was performed between the Goddess and the High King. After the Hill of Tara we will visit The Hill of Slane where there is a well-preserved tower is to be found among the ruins of a Franciscan Monastery, dating from 1512, itself built on site of a monastery founded by St. Erc, a follower of St. Patrick.

The ruins of a college, built to house four priest, four lay brothers and four choristers, also remain. These were built by the Flemings (Barons of Slane from the 11^th – 17^th Centuries) for Franciscans; the family coat of arms can be seen on the west wall of the college quadrangle. Thirty years after its foundation, the monastery was dissolved by King Henry VIII, its land and wealth appropriated. In 1631, the Flemings restored the monastery. It became home to Capuchins monks, who in turn, were driven out in 1651 by Oliver Cromwell.

A quick visit to Mrs. O’s Pub and dinner will be in a neighboring town or back at the farmhouse.  

Day Five: - Clonmacnoise, Lough Boora National Park and Uisneach.

Clonmacnoise : An Early Christian site founded by St. Ciarán in the mid-6th century on the eastern bank of the River Shannon.

After lunch we will visit the beautiful Lough Boora National Park to walk the land.

In the afternoon we will visit “The navel of Ireland” or the seat of the Sun God, Lugh and be guided by a master storyteller who will walk us through this storied landscape.

Dinner will be in a neighboring town or back at the farmhouse.

Day 6 – The Piper’s Stones, Wicklow Gap and Glendalough, 

Day 7 -  Loughcrew and Fore Abbey Loughcrew “The Hag’s Chair” Otherwise known as the “Hills of the Witch” This passage tomb complex tells the story of the “Hag.” These hills are associated with the Goddess Maeve.

Day 8 – June 10 Tuesday - Departure

We will be leaving at 8:00 am to get to Dublin Airport for an 11:30 am departure time.