Description

In Irish Mythology the beginning of the summer season for the Tuatha De Dannan was Bealtaine, May. Great bonfires would mark a time of purification and transition, heralding in the season in the hope of a good harvest later in the year.  In Medieval Ireland Bealtaine was celebrated on the central hill of Uisneach ‘the mystical navel of Ireland’, upon which rested a great stone Ail na Míreann said to mark the meeting point of the five provinces