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Lorica . . . Irish and Scottish music, traditional and liturgical, for concerts, parties, and weddings, in South Bend, Indiana
Irish Dance Classes (and Scottish too) . . . step and ceili, at St. Patrick’s church, South Bend, sponsored by the Celtic Heritage Society
Jim Crawford . . . who recorded his CD of Scottish music, Matured to Perfection, at age 90
David Hartley . . . philosopher and scientist, who wrote Observations on Man (1749)
Contact us for Lorica, dance classes, Jim Crawford, or David Hartley.
Why kilcairn?
kilcairn combines the Gaelic cill, “church,” and carn “cairn, or pile, of stones.”
In Ireland, there are the counties of Kildare and Kilkenny, and the Lakes of Killarney, and Kiltartan Cross in a poem by W. B. Yeats. And in County Donegal, there’s Glencolumbcille — the glen of St. Columba's church.
In Scotland . . . Kilbrennan Sound, Kilmarnock, and Kilwinning. There’s a fine bagpipe tune, “The Kilsyth Hills.” In the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland, you’ll find Kilconquhar, Kilduncan, Kilgour, Kilmany,and Kilrenny.
“The beginning of the 8th century was a complex time in Pictish Church history, and it is probably during this period that the eleven Fife place-names were coined which contain the Gaelic cill, ‘church’. They form a remarkable cluster centred on east Fife, the only area on the whole east coast of Scotland south of Inverness to contain cill-names.”
— Simon Taylor, “Place Names of Fife,” The Fife Book, ed. Donald Olmand (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000), 212.