Episode 33: The Daughters of Airitech

Legends of the Hidden Horde · Jun 30, 2026 · 13m

In the ancient heart of Connacht where rolling plains meet the brooding hills and mists rise like forgotten memories, there stands a place of power and peril. Rathcroghan, also known as Cruachan, rises as a complex of earthworks, ringforts, and caves.

For the Gaelic peoples of old Ireland, this was no ordinary hill. It was a threshold, a place where the veil between the human world and the Otherworld grew thin, especially when the year turned toward darkness.

Every Samhain, when the harvest was gathered and the boundary between living and dead, known and unknown, softened like damp wool…