{"id":1735,"date":"2010-03-20T21:47:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2015-05-20T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T21:53:21","slug":"aran-islands-crossed-pillars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/aran-islands-crossed-pillars\/","title":{"rendered":"Arans Crossed Pillars &#8211; The Standing Stones of the Aran Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Arans Crossed Pillars&quot; - The Standing Stones of the Aran Islands\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TM2aOjmUgpo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While holidaying on Inis M\u00f3r on the Aran islands off of the west coast of Galway last summer, I passed by the strange pillars with names inscribed as on headstones, with crosses on top. <\/p>\n<p>I was intregued, and so set to enquire as to their meaning.<\/p>\n<p>The meaning was for the dead at sea from the islands, or a loved one who died abroad whose body would not be coming home, and they serve as a reminder to those dead who have none left alive to mourn them in their native islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While holidaying on Inis M\u00f3r on the Aran islands off of the west coast of Galway last summer, I passed by the strange pillars with names inscribed as on headstones, with crosses on top. I was intregued, and so set to enquire as to their meaning. The meaning was for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1299,1213,75,54,256],"tags":[1875,1879,2354,1873,1876,1877,1874,1878],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","category-emigration-ireland","category-great-famine","category-ireland","category-irish-heritage","tag-aran-islands","tag-crossed-pillars","tag-death","tag-headstone","tag-inis-mor","tag-kilronan","tag-memorial","tag-pillars","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-rZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2677,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/catch-of-the-merrow\/","url_meta":{"origin":1735,"position":0},"title":"Catch of the Merrow","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th April 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Merrow (Moruadh or Murr\u00faghach, from muir, sea, and oigh, a maid) was a sea spirit thought to lure people to their deaths. 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