For more than 1,600 years, pilgrims have gathered at Croagh Patrick near Westport, Mayo, to climb the mountain as part of a spiritual and religious journey over 2,502ft. Known as Ireland’s "Holy ...

Croagh Patrick in County Mayo is an important site of pilgrimage where St Patrick is believed to have fasted during the 5th-century. Croagh Patrick, which overlooks Clew Bay, the Wild Atlantic Way ...

The Irish Times claims the number was 12,000 – "Drop in numbers climbing Croagh Patrick" – with a unremarkable photograph of a solitary elderly male making his way up the shale path.