To: marshmallow
Those Irish and Scottish Islands used to be far more active than now. My Mother’s clan’s home is Colonsay. Back in the 1700s it had a population of over a thousand.
Now it is just over a hundred.
2 posted on
07/09/2020 6:15:53 PM PDT by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: marshmallow
He described the location, 8 miles west of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland, as the “ultimate monastic site. More likely a hermitage.
3 posted on
07/09/2020 6:16:25 PM PDT by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: marshmallow
Looks like a great place for asceticism.
To: marshmallow
7 posted on
07/09/2020 6:40:57 PM PDT by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: marshmallow
It looks like a difficult place to grow hops and barley. I’ll find a different monastery to join.
To: marshmallow
I was hoping the island would more like Craggy Island, which I know is fictional, but I like the Father Ted reference.
To: marshmallow
It was the Irish that saved Christianity after the western Roman Empire fell.
14 posted on
07/09/2020 7:18:22 PM PDT by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
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