although I think that people have a rather strong obsession with a pagan past in Ireland, I'm not sure it's fair to call it bollocks
is poorly documented, although the persistence of pagan traditions elsewhere in Europe in Christian areas suggests that...
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...well after Christianization, regular ppl still held pagan beliefs, folk practices, etc. while maintaining they were Christian
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and the Church was fighting this. I recommend reading Bernadette Filotas' Pagan Survivals, it's a good survey of the info.
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