Above: Map showing the location of Cashel (click map to enlarge) From Itathcroghan, St. Patrick went to Mayo, and spent the forty days of Lent on the summit of Croagh Patrick in fasting and prayer. In Tyrawley he baptised the seven sons of Awley, brother of King Dathi, and a great number of their followers. He spent seven years in Connacht, and then went through the midlands of Ireland towards Minister. At Cashel the royal residence of the Munster Kings ... Read More

Above: Map of Connacht When the Saint and his attendants gathered at early morning at Clebach, a well on the east side of Rathcroghan, they found there Ethnea and Felimia, two daughters of King Laery, who were in fosterage in Connacht. The story of their conversion is told in the Book of Armagh. The sisters at first thought that St. Patrick and his white-robed companions were Duine Sid/te or fairies, and inquired who they were, and from whence ... Read More