The land in question was protestant owned from the time of settlement, pre Irish famine. The compromise, I'm told, to being allowed to build an Irish catholic shrine on the site was that a flagpole should be erected to fly the British flag as can be seen in the 1st photo. No flag though...
as the wind can fairly blow up there. Storm Éowyn killed the last one. It's known colloquially as The Windy Gap which tells you everything you need to know. They must go through half a dozen flags a year as they get shredded by the weather. Or maybe Mary has a point to make. 😂
Wow. What a story. I'm no Catholic, but I am partial to the idea of Mary proving a point 😂 There is something distinctly Irish about tying spirituality to the land like that, isn't there? As though the island itself is a cathedral that no human architect can ever hope to match