A chara, – With the recent disturbances of US and Canadian airspace by unidentified flying objects, it is worth remembering that other mysterious visitations have occurred closer to home.
In the mid-eighth century, several contemporary sources recorded that several ships were seen sailing through the skies above Ireland. There are also accounts of these ships becoming increasingly intrusive.
The Annals of Clonmacnoise recorded that an airship disrupted Mass when an anchor it dropped caught on the door of the church. It was also recounted in the Book of Ballymote that an airship appeared during the Telltown assembly during the 10th century and that a dart was thrown at a salmon from it. – Is mise,
CIAN Ó DUBHGHAILL,
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