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April 12, 2009
Hill of Slane
The legend: In 433 A.D., on the eve of Easter, St. Patrick lit a bonfire here as part of his campaign to convert the druids to Christianity. Patrick allegedly did this to defy the High King Laoire who forbid any other fires while a Beltane festival fire was burning on the nearby Hill of Tara (in what is now in Meath County). Druids didn't write much 1600 years ago so we do not know how they felt about this.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at April 12, 2009 06:58 PM