Patrick’s birthplace

Given the recent resurgence in pilgrimages, it is strange that there is little or no interest in Irish people visiting Banwen in Wales. It is ‘Man Geni Padrig Sant’, as the Welsh put it — the birthplace of Saint Patrick.

While 100,00 climb Croagh Patrick every year in his footsteps — some of them in bare feet — very few visit the place where Ireland’s patron saint was born.