Gale Graveyard & Abbey Listowel Danny Houlihan’s Irish Experience Show
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In this episode Danny Houlihan Wild Atlantic Way Champion travels out onto one of the arteries of the Wild Atlantic Way to a graveyard called Gale Cemetery about 5 kilometres from Listowel County Kerry Ireland. Today only a grave yard marks the area where once in bygone times there was a settlement possibly Culdees/Hermits, church and abbey within its confines flourishing among the high trees that once covered the landscape near it. In this quiet countryside grave yard with the singing birds in the nearby trees lies hundreds of our ancestors that died in the Great Irish Famine or Holocaust of 1846 and Black 1847 many of these forgotten people descendants are living now in America, Australia England Canada and other destinations. Danny Houlihan in his research goes micro into this site to link up the past life ways and evidence of a place today only locals who's people are buried there visit. Monuments inside the entrance commemorate the famine but when Danny Houlihan peels back the pages of its history a light is thrown on this special place and its past life ways this again is another Experience on The Wild Atlantic Way.
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