Cailleach / Hag of Beara Tour

The Cailleach Beara is one of the oldest living mythological beings associated with Ireland. Called Baoi,  she is one of the original great land Goddesses. She never got old!  It was said “she passed into seven periods of youth, so that every husband used to pass to death from her, of old age, so that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren were peoples and races.”  The ultimate Earth Mother, she was the source of fertility and female power.  As a corn goddess, she was a protector of wild nature.

According to legend this rock is the remains of the 'Hag of Beara', staring out to sea awaiting her husband, Manannán mac Lir, God of the Sea, to return to her.
According to legend this rock is the remains of the ‘Hag of Beara’, staring out to sea awaiting her husband, Manannán mac Lir, God of the Sea, to return to her.

Let Beara Baoi Tours take you to Kilcatherine where you can learn more about the Cailleach. We visit her fossilised remains which overlook Ballycrovane bay as she  awaits the return of her husband, sea god Manannan, now sitting as a stone herself in her landscape of stone.