Thin places are those ‘in between’ sites where you feel neither quite in this world or in with the fairies, neither on earth or in heaven. Ireland, with its ancient myths so inextricably associated with actual locations in Ireland lends itself to having so many thin places.  Also, we are in the twelve days of Christmas.  While in many countries it may be business as usual, we enjoy many bank holidays, our local shops have shorter opening hours, and the world stills if not stops.  This time of year is a ‘thin place.’

Some people call them ‘’liminal spaces.” This is just another way of calling thin places a threshold. A doorway is but one example of a potential  thin place.

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