Customs and Traditions Archives - Page 8 of 15

A golden cereal field stretching toward weathered stone ruins in the Irish countryside

The Forgotten Irish Curse That Could Destroy Your Neighbour’s Harvest

Discover the Irish piseog — the ancient rural curse that could destroy harvests, poison cattle, and tear communities apart for generations.

Why Straw-Masked Strangers Still March Through Irish Villages Every December

Every 26th December, straw-masked musicians march through Irish villages in a tradition called Wren Day — one of Ireland’s oldest and most mysterious customs, still alive today.

Why Every Irish Townland Once Had One House Where Everyone Gathered After Dark

Every Irish Village Once Had Someone With ‘The Cure’ — and Many Still Do

Ireland’s folk healing tradition: the gift of ‘the cure’ — passed through rural families for centuries and still sought out in many communities today.

The Ancient Irish Fire Festival That Set Every Hillside Ablaze

Bealtaine was Ireland’s ancient May Day fire festival — hilltops ablaze, cattle through flames, hawthorn in bloom. Discover how summer once began across Ireland.

Visitors climbing the ancient stone steps toward the monastery on Skellig Michael, County Kerry

The Skellig List: An Irish Spring Tradition of Unmarried Couples

The Skellig List named every impatient couple in Ireland each spring. Discover the folk tradition that made parishes laugh from Kerry to Donegal.

The Irish Island Where Pilgrims Have Gone Barefoot and Hungry for 1,500 Years

Discover the Lough Derg pilgrimage in County Donegal, where thousands still fast barefoot on Station Island for three days — a tradition over 1,500 years old.

The Dying Art That Made Ireland’s Most Iconic Cottage — and Why It’s Almost Gone

Fewer than 2,000 thatched cottages remain in Ireland today. Discover the ancient craft of thatching, why it’s disappearing, and where to see it survive.

Dry stone walls criss-crossing the Aran Islands landscape with white goats grazing

Dry Stone Walls in Ireland: How They Last 1,000 Years Without Mortar

Stand on the clifftop of Inis Mór and look down.

The Magpie Rhyme: Irish Fortune-Telling Superstition and Meanings

You’re driving down a country road in Connacht when a…

A whitewashed thatched cottage with a red door in Ardara, County Donegal — the kind of rural Irish home where a Stations Mass would be held

The Stations: Ireland’s Secret House Mass Tradition

Every few years, in rural townlands across Ireland, something…

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