For over 7,000 years, during the time of Bealtaine in May, pilgrims have travelled the sacred path from the holy well at The City in Shrone, County Kerry, to the peaks of The Paps of Anú.
These mountains were revered in her honour . Anú is the Celtic goddess of fertility and was highly revered by pre-Christian agricultural communities as the guardian of cattle and health. In pre-Christian times, these sacred mountains were venerated as the source of the wellbeing for the surrounding land and the lives of the people who lived on it. On each summit sits a prehistoric cairn housing cist type burials. The annual springtime pilgrimages to these twin peaks were demonstrated a ritualistic devotion to Mother Earth Anú. The city Beneath Me stages a reactivation of these Druidic rituals on the barren windswept terrain of the Paps’ foothills and slopes.
In returning to his ancestral home in dawn’s early light, Dineen reimagining’s are an honoring disappearing traditions on well-trodden sacred paths and summoning of the spirits of the ancestors who permeate the thin air between worlds on this holy ground.
