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Congratulations to Jessica and Martin

20/6/2026

Our congratulations and blessings go to Jessica and Martin on their Handfasting. Celebrated under tall Larch and high mountains by Ard Druí Karl in a quiet place in Nature in Austria. Such special moments of celebrating a couple's happiness as they vow to share a Path together is a very beautiful thing. May they enjoy every step of their Path together!
You can connect with Ard Druí Karl and look at his website at https://www.cdtviennagrove.at/

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New Video Updates

19/6/2026

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Two native visitors to Temple Crom this evening, the Gas generator in the background doing a float charge and the birds protecting their territory. Watch them on youtube here.

This is Big Mama, the latest edition to our egg laying flock, she's lovely and we're so happy to have her on the team. Watch her on youtube here.

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Update on Activities at Temple Crom Woodland

18/6/2026

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We planted a new flower bed at the entrance, some of the flowers come from our farm and some were gifted by our friend Irene, who along with Damian helped to create this new flower bed to welcome guests. It is important to us to plant visually colorful flowers as well as edibles so we planted a mix of fruit and pretty flowers and mulched them all with homemade woodchips.

Developments at the Urn Field
We have dedicated a space for the ancestors in our woodland. We call this place the Urn Field, it is a place where you can scatter or bury ashes of loved ones who have passed on. We have cleared around a beautiful big boulder made of sandstone and quartz and placed a Blessing Stone on top of this boulder for you to send blessings to loved ones on their journey from the Realm of Land back to Tír na nÓg. Pics in the next blog.

A Healing Meditation with Trees
We have found some beautiful places for you to sit and meditate in the woodlands. First we planted the trees, then we waited and provided help where needed, now the trees have grown and are creating their own shape and place of healing. We had a tree come down in a bad storm, we kept some of the wood for fire wood and with some of the wood we hand crafted meditation stools. These have been strategically placed at trees so that you can sit comfortably with your back against the trunk of a tree. This allows you to harmonise your energy field by connecting to the energy field of the tree. More on this project later with pictures...

Refurbishment of Temple Crom
With great thanks and appreciation to our friends, members and special donors and of course our wonderful volunteers we would like to announce that Temple Crom's refurbishment is now complete. Its even got new woodchips on the ground of Temple Crom and the Yew tress at the entrance have been pruned for safety and access reasons. This wooden circular temple is now 15 years old and has had its main structural timbers reinforced with buttresses. New tapestries of Crom agus Corra surround the great Tree of Life. Pictures in our next blog.

Woodland Tours and Healing Meditations
At Celtic Druid Temple we'd love to welcome you and show you around on a tour. The tour is styled as a Q&A, so feel free to ask as many questions as you like as we walk around the Temple and its woodlands. If you'd like to relax and recharge we are also here to help you. We have created safe spaces for you to sit with the Trees, Ard Druí Niamh will guide you on our special and unique form of meditation with trees. You can book your place here.

Ducks and ducklings in our Pond!
In Autumn 2024 we dug a new pond in the centre of the woodland and we've just spotted something amazing. Earlier on in the year we noticed a flock of ducks had been visiting and whilst Niamh was giving a tour during this week she and her guest spotted something truly beautiful....a mama duck and her 3 tiny ducklings swimming across the pond. We have, of course, set up the trail cam but haven't been successful as yet....watch this space!!

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Full Moon 30 June 2026

18/6/2026

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The Full Moon rises at 22:54 but this image is set for 8pm or 20:00 when ceremony begins on Tara. This tradition began on the Spring Equinox in 2003 and continues today - 23 years later. Ard Druí Sean Rua facilitates this ceremony on Tara. If you'd like to join this ceremony on Tara you can contact John directly at [email protected]

If you'd like to join this ceremony in Vienna, Austria you can contact the facilitator Ard Druí Karl at [email protected]
and in Co. Roscommon, Ireland you can join Con and Niamh and contact them at [email protected]

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Summer Solstice Sunrise 21 June 2026

16/6/2026

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This blog took a while to create - it will be in the book I'm writing. It shows images of the sky for sunrise, midday, sunset and true midnight. The Sun's glare is removed allowing viewers to see what is usually hidden to most. Many star groups have been renamed to give the Magic Beasts of our country's forgotten starlore new expression.
First Image is of the Sunrise

Note: the Dagda (Orion) carries the Sun in his upright arm / hand for the day and night. Dagda's hand and the sun are occulting the place where Bealach na Bó Finne (Milky Way) crosses the ecliptic (the path of the sun, moon and planets). Behind this is M35 a star cluster where new planets are born. Dagda reached his zenith here in 2012 on Dec 21st...

Midday on the longest day. Dagda standing tall preceded by Saturn, Mars, Uranus and the Eye of the Bull known as Aldebaran in Taurus (Tarbh). He is followed by Mercury, Jupiter, Venus Crom and the Heart of Cú aka the Hound (Regulus in Leo) and the rising Moon. What a skyscape.

Behind Dagda's upraised hand holding the Sun is the birthplace of galaxies M35. It is where the Ecliptic crosses the Galactic Equator in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere the equivalent location where the Ecliptic crosses the Galactic Equator we have An Láir Bhán (The White Mare aka Sagittarius). At true Midnight on the longest day/shortest night the White Mare takes the front and center - see picture below.

This is a twilight image with the Sun shine removed - it will still be bright with refracted light until maybe 11:30 or 23:30. Mercury, Jupiter and Venus follow Dagda into the otherworld while invisible to our eyes and so the cycle continues. Our ancestors never really went away - they are in the Realm of Sky above us.

At true midnight it is exactly 12 hours after true midday which is high noon. High Noon is when the Sun is exactly due south and at its highest point in the sky. Usually at 1:26 pm or at 13:26 on a 24 hour clock. At this time we see the star constellation of Sagittarius is due south. We call this constellation An Láir Bhán (the White Mare). It is the time of weaning foals, of beach racing and back in the day probably horse fights too.
The White Mare is one of Manannan's three totem animals...

Happy Summer Solstice to everyone everywhere - may this longest day bring extra love and light into your world.

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TALLAGHT HILL Summer Solstice Sunrise every year

16/6/2026

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Tallaght Hill has a long hidden and forgotten secret. It is home to a special Summer Solstice Sunrise, just like Newgrange with its Winter Solstice Sunrise: both events align up with Lambay Volcano (extinct) before the modified beam of Sunlight goes into an ancient temple. For Tallaght Hill - this temple is on private land and permission is required - do not park blocking a gate. We share some pics of the Sun Magic on Tallaght Hill...

The yellow shape of the Suns coverage reminds me of a Golden Lunala - can be seen in our National Museum.

The Magic Beast of Samhradh is An Láir Bhán or White Mare. During the protest at the destruction of Tara for Dick Cheneys toll road, one of the group found a wooden statue of the white mare in a skip. We added it to our ceremony that Full Moon night.

In the library in Tallaght's co-co offices there are maps and stories of Tallaght Hill showing ancient wells and temples. Just say you are doing "local history studies" when inquiring - it is a trigger phrase that gets help.

The Magic Beast in the Summer night sky.

Above is a map I sketched from walking the hill back in the early 90s. Don't block gates.

Malachi Horan's map from the book called "Malachi Horan Remembers" published in 1943 by Dr George A. Little. This book is in the National Library - also online at mad prices

Me and a crew in 1994 or 5. We are standing on Tallaght Hill watching the Sun rise over Lambay Volcano on the Summer Solstice.

If you get to this visual - you are west of the remains of a cairn (a cairn is a pile of stones over a Temple that the Archaeologists refer to as a grave) - physically this is all that is left. But the alignment - the quartz faced entrance stone, the pond on the top of the (we cleared it in '94 by hand) hill, the earth bank and the Lambay Volcano and the Sun. What a view - you can see Newgrange from here and all of Dublin too just as your ancestors did on the longest day sunrise thousands of years ago.

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Congratulations to Jessica and Martin

New Video Updates

Update on Activities at Temple Crom Woodland

Full Moon 30 June 2026

Summer Solstice Sunrise 21 June 2026

TALLAGHT HILL Summer Solstice Sunrise every year

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