The Hag of Beara
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The Hag of Beara is a mythic Irish Goddess: a Cailleach, or divine hag, crone, or creator deity; literally the veiled one. She is associated with the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland, and was t
The "Wailing Woman", looking towards Little Skellig
The Cailleach Beara, or Hag of Beara. According to legend, this rock represents the fossilized remains of the face of the Cailleach Beara, staring out at the ocean and awaiting her husband Manannán, God of the Sea, to return to her
Hag's Head, County Clare
Beara Peninsula
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Beara or the Beara Peninsula is a peninsula on the south-west coast of Ireland, bounded between the Kenmare River to the north side and Bantry Bay to the south. It contains two mountain ranges running
The Hag of Beara
…Irish Goddess: a Cailleach, or divine hag, crone, or creator deity; literally the veiled one (caille translates as "veil"). She is associated with the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland, and was thought to bring winter. She is best known as the narrator of the medieval Irish poem "The Lament of the Hag of Beara…
Stookeennaloakareha
Glanmore Lake
Healy Pass - distance
Healy Pass - road