8. Drumceatt

Blending into the undulations of one of the Northern Ireland’s finest resort Golf Courses and overlooking the site of the Radisson Roe Park Hotel, sits the hill of Drumceatt, a site where one of the most interesting political ploy’s came to be introduced to the human consciousness.   Here’s Dr Curran to enlighten us further.
Dr Bob Curran:

Drumceatt, Mullagh Hill was the site of an early church convention called Drumcat which was called in 573 by Aide, The High King of Ireland to consider the position of the Bards and Phillie (or Rhymer’s) who were presenting a problem, it was also to consider the financial independence or Scottish Dalriada. St Colmcille attended this convention, he was allegedly blinded folded and with Scottish sods of Scottish earth attached on his feet because he had sworn an oath not to see Ireland or walk on Irish soil again. He swung the debate by going on and on about o [...]