St Patricks Church Donaghmore Traditional Cache
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St Patricks Church Donaghmore
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A cache and dash (mini with log only) at the side of the road located beside a little church thats named after st Patrick. There is a small lay by outside the church where you can park litteraly meters away from the cache.As long as you respect the road and care is taken with kids etc it's suitable for all. Access is available 24/7 but mass takes place at 10am each Sunday and parking may not be possible. Add mugglers and it starts to make it awarkward so I'd avoid Sunday mass time.
On St Patrick's Day it is customary to wear shamrocks and/or green clothing or accessories (the "wearing of the green"). St Patrick is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish. This story first appears in writing in 1726, though it may be older. In pagan Ireland, three was a significant number and the Irish had many triple deities, a fact that may have aided St Patrick in his evangelisation efforts. Icons of St Patrick often depict the saint "with a cross in one hand and a sprig of shamrocks in the other". We can perhaps see St Patrick drawing upon the visual concept of the triskele when he uses the shamrock to explain the Trinity. The colour green has been associated with Ireland since at least the 1640s, when the green harp flag was used by the Irish Catholic Confederation. Green ribbons and shamrocks have been worn on St Patrick's Day since at least the 1680s. The Friendly Brothers of St Patrick, an Irish fraternity founded in about 1750, adopted green as its colour. During the 1790s, green would become associated with Irish nationalism, due to its use by the United Irishmen. ***spoiler logs will be removed***
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TERRA (vg vf fg cngevpxf puhepu nsgre nyy)