The Turning Year
Síor is named after the old markers of the Celtic year — the festivals that turned the land from fire to harvest to rest.
The harvest season
Mist on the fields in the morning, the evenings drawing in. Blackberries in the hedges and the first fires of the year.
Sauna into the dark, hot tub under a clear sky, the fire pit lit by seven.
Stay this season · Bealtaine Farmhouse →Long before calendars, the ancient Celtic year was told in four turning points — each a threshold between seasons, marked with fire, feasting and gathering. We take our names, and our sense of time, from them.
Imbolc
The quickening. The first stir of the year, as the light lengthens and the ground softens. Tended by Brigid — goddess of hearth, poetry and healing.
Bealtaine
The fire. The bright doorway into summer, when bonfires were lit for blessing and the land came fully alive with warmth, growth and light.
Our retreat · Bealtaine →Lúnasa
The gathering. The first fruits taken in gratitude, named for Lugh. The turn from growing to reaping, and the drawing-together of community.
Our retreat · Lúnasa →Samhain
The rest. The year’s end and its beginning, when the harvest is in and the veil thins. A time for stillness, remembrance and turning inward.
Step into the turning year
Bealtaine, the fire, is open now near Carrick-on-Shannon. Lúnasa, the harvest, is coming to the Wild Atlantic Way. Each a season you can stay inside.
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