page_title: Gartan
hierarchical_section_title: Gartan
caption_attribution_description: English: Garton Lough, Co. Donegal.
context_page_description: Gartan is a parish in County Donegal, Ireland. It is best known for being the birthplace of Columba, one of the three patron saints of Ireland and one of the most revered saints in the Christian world. Here he founded a monastery in 521. The popular song "Gartan Mother's Lullaby" comes from the area, and has been performed by many artists, including American actress Meryl Streep.
  The book Kenny, by Leona Dalrymple,
  which may be
  read online says:
  I often think these days of Kenny's wood-fire tales of the shrine of
  Black Gartan where St. Columba was born. Colomcille, old Kenny called
  him around the wood-fire, didn't he? Colomcille, Kenny said, having
  been in exile, knew the homesick pangs himself and therefore could give
  the good Irishmen who journeyed to his shrine strength to bear them.
  I'm not in exile but there are times when I should be journeyin' off,
  as Kenny says when the brogue is on him, to Black Gartan. The curse of
  the Celt! Kenny swears there's no homesickness in the world like an
  Irishman's passionate longing for home and kin. Not that I long for
  the studio. God forbid! Kenny's the symbol for it all.
context_section_description: Gartan (Irish: Gartán) is a parish in County Donegal, Ireland. It is best known for being the birthplace of Columba, one of the three patron saints of Ireland and one of the most revered saints in the Christian world. Here he founded a monastery in 521. The popular song "Gartan Mother's Lullaby" comes from the area, and has been performed by many artists, including American actress Meryl Streep.
  The book Kenny, by Leona Dalrymple (The Reilly & Britton Co., Chicago, 1917),
  which  may be
  read online says:
  I often think these days of Kenny's wood-fire tales of the shrine of
  
  Black Gartan where St. Columba was born.  Colomcille, old Kenny called
  
  him around the wood-fire, didn't he?  Colomcille, Kenny said, having
  
  been in exile, knew the homesick pangs himself and therefore could give
  
  the good Irishmen who journeyed to his shrine strength to bear them.
  
  I'm not in exile but there are times when I should be journeyin' off,
  
  as Kenny says when the brogue is on him, to Black Gartan.  The curse of
  
  the Celt!  Kenny swears there's no homesickness in the world like an
  
  Irishman's passionate longing for home and kin.  Not that I long for
  
  the studio.  God forbid!  Kenny's the symbol for it all.
caption: Gartan Lough
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