Laa Luanys
- Item sets
- Traditions
- Name
- Laa Luanys
- Description
- Lammas, 1 August. The people climbed to the highest hills and visited the sacred wells. Probably originally associated with the Celtic god Lug, who in Manx tradition had been brought up at the court of Manannan. Another point in the ritual year where the Christian calendar and something older converged without contradiction.
- Date / Season
- 1 August
- Manx Name
- Laa Luanys
- Period
- Celtic and Pre-Norse Period
- Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles
- The Stanley Lordship
- The Trading Era
- Type
- Custom / Calendar
- Source
- Moore, Folk-lore (1891), Ch. VII