As a rule, historians like to trade in events that have a clear beginning, middle and end.

It makes life easier for obvious reasons.

However, some of the most interesting stories are the more complex ones, and today's podcast

explores a little known place in a remote corner of Donigal called T-shirt.

Its history is not easily summarized or simplified, rituals of one kind or another have been

practiced for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years in this corner of the Blue Stack Mountains.

The history of T-shirt as you're about to hear can't be neatly explained by labeling

it as medieval or modern, Christian or pagan.

It's a far more interesting and complex story than that.

It's not clear why, but humans have been drawn here for thousands of years, even though

T-shirt is remote and inaccessible.

It emerges in the historical record in somewhat vague terms.

Local tradition holds that a monastery on the site was founded by Saint Colin Kill in

the 6th century.

However, a sacred well hints at the possibility of an even earlier pagan past, even the

modern history of this place is intriguing.

In more recent times, D-shirt was used by Catholics when they were persecuted in the 18th century,

and then, in more recent times as a killing, a burial site for unbaptized children,

discontinued into the 20th century.

Now last summer I visited D-shirt because a local community project have joined forces

with an international team of experts from Atlantic Technological University in Sligo,

the US-based Institute for Field Research and the California State University LA to unlock

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