Croagh Patrick

Croagh Patrick,nicknamed the Reek, is a 764 m mountain and an crucial website of pilgrimage in Mayo, Ireland. It is eight km from Westport, above the villages of Murrisk and Lecanvey. It is the 1/3 highest mountain in Mayo after Mweelrea, and Nephin. It is climbed with the aid of pilgrims on Reek Sunday each yr, that's the ultimate Sunday in July. It bureaucracy the southern part of a U-formed valley created by way of a glacier flowing into Clew Bay in the closing Ice Age. Croagh Patrick is a part of an extended east-west ridge; the westernmost height being Ben Gorm. Croagh Patrick comes from the Irish Cruach Phadraig meaning " Patrick's stack".

It is understood domestically as "the Reek", a Hiberno-English phrase for a "rick" or "stack". In pagan instances it turned into referred to as Cruachan Aigle or Cruach Aigle, being noted with the aid of that call in assets consisting of Cath Maige Tuired, Buile Shuibhne, The Metrical Dindshenchas, and the Annals of Ulster entry for the 12 months 1113. Cruachan is surely a diminutive of cruach "stack", but it isn't positive what Aigle means.