• 2022 Cycling - General

    St Brigid’s Day

    February 1, 2022 - By 

    A few years ago, I cycled home to Kildare after a family weekend in Dundalk. The hook for my cycle was to connect the birthplace of St Brigid in Faughart, just outside Dundalk, with Kildare where Brigid lived and died. This year, to mark St Brigid’s Day, I decided on the shorter (and much flatter!) cycle to Umeras, a townland just outside Monasterevan. Local legend says that this is the actual birth place of Brigid. Umeras is on the Grand Canal between Rathangan and Monasterevan so it was a good opportunity to try out the new cycle path along the…

  • 2021 Cycling

    Feighcullen, Rathangan, Co Kildare

    November 8, 2021 - By 

    I decided to visit the old church in Feighcullen, Rathangan today. The church is a 10km cycle from home and I had the wind on my back across The Curragh making it a quick spin. The church is accessed through a gate opposite the bottom of Boston Hill. Coming down the lane to the church, I was surprised to see the state of disrepair that the church has fallen into. I hadn’t visited for around 15 years despite cycling the roads around there regularly. The door of the church is now gone and there is rubbish scattered around the insides…