Our band's name was inspired by St. Brendan the Navigator. According to legend he sailed from Ireland to North America in a small boat called a coracle.
On the Kerry coast, he built a currach-like boat of wattle, covered it with hides tanned in oak bark softened with butter, set up a mast and a sail. He and a small group of monks fasted for forty days, and after a prayer upon the shore, embarked in the name of the Trinity.
Monument to St. Brendan, Knockaunrory, Co. Kerry, Ireland, photo by Steve Hodgetts
Coracles have been used by fishermen in Ireland and the British Isles.
