At his first workshop in Derry I asked Marko if he could help me locate a suitable site, on my own property, for a Meditation Sanctuary. However, he had to return home urgently so he could not come. In July I got a letter from him saying that his daughters, who are psychic, told him he must visit this property as it was a very important site. He, his wife Merika, and one daughter, Anya,  flew over specially to see it. They said they believed it to be a pre-celtic ritual site and the energy centre for the whole North-West of Ireland. He suggested that I had been guided here by the goddess Danu to re-vitalise this site (an odd concept for a former military officer to understand!).

    However, I had been assured by two archaeologists that I might expect to find about 20 ancient sites within an 8 km radius of the Mill (I'm thinking Tourism here!). After researching the Donegal Archaeological Survey, ,and maps and records in Letterkenny Museum, over about 18 months, I went on to find 175 recorded sites. A further visit to the property in '93 resulted in Marko having an unbelievable conversation with what he described as extra-terrestrials, or the pre-celtic Tuatha de Danann (people of the goddess Danu) who were dressed in feather cloaks and head-dresses who said "they had been there for 5000 years and were very happy with the new use of the property and the positive energy of the visitors, and, that they were co-operating from below with what was taking place above." (Maybe I should have stayed in the Army!)

Marko designed symbols (cosmogrammes), specific to each energy point in the Derry/Donegal landscape. The one shown here, which we have adopted as our logo, depicts this property at the centre of three energy spirals. One comes from the feminine, dark, flat-topped and rounded, Muckish Mountain; one from the masculine, white, conical-shaped Errigal Mountain; and the third from the Tor (cliff) of the Male/Female shaped, Tory Island. 

Later that same year, Michael Poynder, painter, poet, gemmologist and spiritual healer who wrote a very detailed and comprehensive book on the ancient sites and their purpose, called "Pi in the Sky", came to visit. His dowsed map of the property shows an amazing 13 energy-spirals "indicating a site of great importance".

Other visitors from different disciplines further substantiated the theory. (Maybe, just maybe, there is something in all of this?)

One other odd thing, was, that when Marko showed me the locations of the ten 'power points of the ancient ritual site', I realised that 5 were on the property I owned, 4 were on land I hoped to buy one day and which I was later sold at a very reasonable price, but the other (the point of Venus) was on a small piece of ground which Tommy, the man who had sold me the whole property, said he would never sell. The legal map got lost when the contract was being formalised and a new one had to be drawn up. This time, the elusive 'point of Venus' was included and, when I pointed this out to Tommy he said there would be no charge, it was a gift!!

Many visitors to the hostel have very special and sometimes spiritual experiences during their stay. Some can say exactly what this is in terms I do not fully understand, but others will make comments like "Wonderful scenery .. Beautiful old buildings with a special atmosphere .. Great hospitality .. But .... But .... There is something else .....?!"