Temples

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Temples have often been considered a foreign thing to the Celts and the Druids, a contrast has been made between the urban shrines of the Romans and Hellenes or the enclosed churches of Christendom verses the wild and free nature of the Celts and their groves. However, there is a distinct possibility of such enclosures also existing within the Celtic world, for where else does the sword of Caesar Hang? 

 While a temple has never been found in Ireland the Society is distinctly interested in this temple and shrine tradition. The lack of argument could easily be argued as the destruction of shrines and temples from Christendom or their replacement with churches or that we merely have not discovered any.

 Whatever the instance, such a tradition will be kept by the Society. In which an enclosure is walled off with Palisades to mark the sacred from the mundane. Within the palisades would be a circular or rectangular building called a Cella, where rites and private devotions to an idol or other sacred image is practised. 

 The space between the Cella and the palisades is the Temenos, here larger rites are performed to the god, possibly a sacred tree or godpole would be present in the Temenos for worship as well.

 This is of course, the same manner in which Romano-British temples are built, this is because of the theory that perhaps these temples were affected by earlier Celtic models. Thus creating its more unique shape.

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 *We apologise if this is small, proper study has not yet been taken and this is merely a placehold*