Monday, September 14, 2020

Díseart Cemetery, Co Donegal



Considered to be Christian since the 6th century, but evidence of  Neolithic burial. Díseart is spare and magical. Religions pass into each other, rituals too. Díseart, among many sites in Ireland, is an example of this.




Silence, a bell without a clapper,
calling to prayer;
you must cross the bridge
to reach a state of grace.

Through the long grass to the well,
water from earth;
blood-life;
cleanse your soul.


Three cairns heaped on corpses
persuade souls to escape;
pass under the stone arch,
be free in eternity.

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