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St. Patrick's Day

We've been expecting you...one of the locals at Leaba Padraig casting a cold eye on visitors in December 2005.

Congratulations to Gavin on winning the Photo category of the Irish Blog Awards -his site is well worth a daily visit. And well done, yet again, to Damien for organising the whole thing and also to Ryan for photographing the whole thing.

Every year around this time, this site get loads of visitors who search Google Images for "St. Patrick" and end up here due to this gallery of the 2002 Croagh Patrick pilgrimage on the last weekend in July (it was also the last time that I've been there when the sun shone). That gallery is also linked via the Wikipedia entry on Croagh Patrick.

There are already hundreds of visitors wandering around the streets of Galway in advance of the weekend, with many more expected in the next few days. There'll be plenty of festivities to celebrate St. Patrick's Day on Saturday - if you'd like something a bit more austere, you could try Leaba Padraig, a holy grotto in the Maamturk mountains in Connemara, reputed to have been visited by the man himself (but probably didn't).

Statue of St. Patrick at Leaba Padriag (St. Patrick's Bed) in Connemara.

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Posted by Monasette at March 14, 2007 11:14 AM