Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free Future
Dublin to London, April-June - 2007
Day 29 - June 10th, 2007: Kirkcowan to Creetown “sacred sites”
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Today we finally got off the fast moving (no shoulder) A75 to the small village of Creetown. We walked through Newton Stewart, over the Cree River and onto the National Cycle Network Trail for a beautiful walk through the forest.
Larry and Barbara from Edinburgh joined us early in the day which was great, and always good to see local people come and join the walk. We had organized with the great help and support of Ian and Helen McDonald a stay place in two homes in the village of Wigtown. This meant that after we walked Helen and Ian met us in Creetown and transported all the walkers back to their town. The help was really appreciated especially as I had only spoken to Helen a few days before and immediately she supported the walk and organized for the homes to stay in. Fantastic, and thank you!! We were lucky to have Ian transport us back to where we had left the support van in the previous town of Kirkcowan. On our way back Ian took us to the sacred site of Torhouse Stone Circle - which is one of the best preserved of its type in Britain. It was built in the Bronze Age some four thousand years ago for a religious ceremonial purpose that is now lost to us. Most stone circles of this type seem to have been aligned the rising or setting moon or sun. This example may have been laid out in a design related to the midwinter sunrise. Ian shared the ideas of historians and anthropologists piecing together history and said that it is possible that this circle and others on the route between the north east and Ireland represent the movement of migrants or at least the movement of ideas. It was really nice to spend some time with Ian and share ideas about the beautiful sacred space we were at. It was delightfully peaceful as the sun was setting and I thought about all the different sacred sites around the world I have been to and how native people are trying to protect these sites from destruction. The spirit is strong in these places and once used for many different reasons, it is important for them all to be left alone and preserved. Protect Sacred Sites. 
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