Conway Mill Trust

Happy Celtic New Year!  Nov 1 is one of the feasts of the Celtic quarter year, the others being Feb 1, May 1 and Aug 1, but Samhain is the most religious and important date on the calendar when it was most important to please the gods and goddesses to ensure good luck for the coming year.  Festivities were carried out around bonfires, and families and other members of the community gathered together. These were so important that a person could be excluded from participating if a crime had been committed. The god Dagda was the great father of the tribe.  He carried a club which he could use to attack the enemy with one end and with the other he could raise the dead.  He also carries a cauldron full of food which is never empty.