Nain, Máirín Uí Chathalláin was born and raised in Arda Mór, on the Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, in 1937. Since the day she married, she has lived in Coimín, a small townland west of Dingle, where around 45 people live today. She never left Ireland. She says she would go amú, or astray, if she did! She now spends her days sitting in her house, looking out through the window at Baile Dháith Tower and eating any damn thing she wants, sweet things mostly. She is 86. She loves a mug of cocoa at night, and a Yorkie bar, and she loves people visiting her. She is a well of knowledge and has so much information on ancient traditions. She’s the heart of the family, our stalwart go-to. She has a huge heart, she’s a loving, welcoming, funny woman, full to the brim of craic and devilment, and of advice and sense about the big, bad world.
