The City Beneath Me

For 7,000 years, at Bealtaine in May, pilgrims have walked the path from the holy well at The City in Shrone, Kerry, to the top of The Paps of Anú. She was a fertility goddess revered by pre-Christian agricultural communities as the guardian of cattle & health. The mountains were venerated as the source of wellbeing for the surrounding land with prehistoric cairns on each of the summits and pilgrimages & ritualistic displays of devotion to her being held in springtime. 'The City Beneath Me' reactivates these rituals on the Paps' slopes. Dineen’s reimaginings are an honouring of lost traditions on the ancient sacred paths as well as a summoning of the spirits of his ancestors who permeate the thin air between worlds on this holy ground.