Croagh Patrick (also known as ‘the Reek’) is a 764m mountain on the west coast of Ireland: a great pyramid of rock which rises alone, its grandeur unobstructed by neighbouring peaks. Its lower ...

Scallon debuted the song Thursday during a special concert in the KnockShrine Basilica in County Mayo, Ireland, near where St. Patrick tended sheep on Croagh Patrick mountain.

It’s his 52nd year looking after Croagh Patrick.” As Many Reasons as Pilgrims “Anyone coming to the mountain to climb it knows that it’s a holy and sacred place,” said Father McDonnell.

After returning from what he reckoned was his 85th ascent of Croagh Patrick, Martin Corcoran from Islandeady lamented the fall-off in numbers. “It’s sad what’s happening,” he said.

In James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, the Dublin Bay region is mirrored by a westerly shadowland or "Echoland!" (FW 13.05): Croagh Patrick and the surrounding Clew Bay area in County Mayo on the west coast ...