St Mullins gathering was a perfect family day out
Musicians from the local Rambling House played at the St Mullins community gathering
It was a balmy, sunny, summer afternoon when the community of St Mullins gathered together on the village green for tea, cake, chat and a bit of craic!
The community gathering was the first such event organised by the St Mullins Tourism and Heritage Committee, in conjunction with Carlow County Council.
Laura Kelly, community development officer with the council, supplied picnic blankets, with people being encouraged to bring along delicious treats to eat while the committee supplied lashings of tea and coffee.
Members of the local Rambling House were invited to go along and entertain the crowd with storytelling and music. For the youngsters, there was face-painting and, like generations before them, they busied themselves by rolling down the motte, or hillock, in the village!
Elsewhere, there were games of welly throwing and tossing horse shoes, which sent the older people there on a trip down memory lane.
“We were very lucky! It was a beautiful day, one of those lovely, balmy summer afternoons,” said committee member Clare Ryan.
“There were lots of older people there who could just sit down and chat. It’s not very often that happens now and I think people really appreciated the chance to enjoy such a nice gathering. We were blessed with the weather and St Mullins is such a beautiful place.”
The village of St Mullins is named after St Moling, who founded a monastery there in the seventh century. It’s renowned for its annual pattern, or graveyard Mass, which attracts people from all over the south of the county. It’s also built on the banks of the River Barrow and is one of Co Carlow’s most treasured beauty spots.
