However, their Lughnasadh celebrations can be very different despite the shared name.

Locals would visit it at Lughnasadh and take turns sitting on the chair.

You spoke of Lughnasadh and I think this would be wonderful.

Lughnasadh was a time when kings were sometimes actually put to death after their appointed term of rulership.

Many of the activities that had been done at Lughnasadh - sports, games and horse races - migrated to this day.

Lughnasadh is a time to see what has developed and to give thanks for it and correct the mistakes of the active summer period.

Lughnasadh is known as the first harvest festival.

It has been traced as far back as the 16th century but is believed to be a survival of a Lughnasadh festival.

Up until the 1830s, people would climb the mountain as part of a yearly pilgrimage, which may have originally been a Lughnasadh ritual.

The Irish name Lughnasadh is used in some traditions to designate this holiday.

Lughnasadh also teaches us to live in the now, as fully as possible, but that we should also plan for the future.

If a couple wanted they could be married at Lughnasadh and decide the following year if they were suited to a life long union.

Lughnasadh is considered a time of thanksgiving and the first of the three Pagan harvest festivals.

Many of Ireland's prominent mountains and hills were climbed at Lughnasadh into the modern era.

At the end of Lughnasadh a fire wheel was rolled down a hill symbolizing the turning of the season toward winter.

A similar Lughnasadh festival was held at Carmun (whose exact location is under dispute).

Castlefest is based on the Celtic feast of Lughnasadh.

Lughnasadh is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and is believed to have pagan origins.

Since the later 20th century, Celtic neopagans have observed Lughnasadh, or something based on it, as a religious holiday.

It is likely that this was originally a Lughnasadh ritual that became Christianized.

It is likely that the pilgrimage originated in pre-Christian times and was originally a Lughnasadh ritual.

Lughnasadh fits in with the cycle of our lives in that it reflects a time of accountability to family and community.

From the 18th century to the mid 20th century, many accounts of Lughnasadh customs were recorded by folklorists and other writers.

Wiccans use the names "Lughnasadh" or "Lammas" for the first of their autumn harvest festivals.

The Catholic Church in Ireland established the custom of blessing fields at Lughnasadh.