Samhain Festival of Food & Culture: A Priest’s 1630s Bonfire Story Now Sits Beside a €120 Supper
In the 1630s a priest named Geoffrey Keating wrote that every fire in Ireland went out on the eve of Samhain. Druids then lit one great blaze on a hill outside Athboy. People carried flame from it to relight their own hearths.
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