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Celtic Heritage, Holy places, ancient rituals, old myths and legends, early Celtic Church. Tours and lectures with recognized scholars on Celtic Heritage, myths and stories with the storytellers Niall de Burca or Liz Weir....

It is noteworthy, not simply for its early Irish High Crosses, but for the manner of a masterpiece of restoration. The major beauty, the great High Cross, had been smashed and spread over the ground in an outrage of iconocilasm but the remnants were collected, chip by chip, splinter by splinter, and restored to today's stature by a blind man....