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Laa Luanys / Lammas Manx Phrases
Laa Luanys
Laa Luanys / Lammas is called "Laa Luanys" in Manx.
Laa Luanys, 1 August, is the Manx Lammas Day, and Luanistyn is the Manx name for August. Below are the names for the day and the month, and the words for the harvest it opens.
Useful words
Laa Luanys
Lammas Day, 1 August
The festival day.
Laa Luanistyn
Lammas Day
Another form of the name.
Luanistyn
August; Lammas
The month takes the festival's name.
fouyr
harvest
The season Laa Luanys opens.
The history of Laa Luanys
Culture Vannin describes Laa Luanys as a Manx tradition stretching back to Celtic times. At the start of August Manx people would visit wells and climb hills such as Snaefell and South Barrule, a practice that began before Christianity and continued in the Christian tradition. Luanistyn, August, comes from Old Irish Lugnasad and is related to Irish Lúnasa and Scottish Gaelic Lùnastal.
Common questions
What is Laa Luanys?
The Manx Lammas Day, 1 August, when people traditionally climbed the hills and visited wells.
Laa Luanys / Lammas in the other Celtic languages
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Sources
Every phrase and fact on this page was checked against the sources below. Last checked 2026-10-20.
- Culture Vannin
- Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): Manx–English: Laa Luanys
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): English–Manx: Lammas Day
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): English–Manx: Lammas
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): English–Manx: harvest
Credit: Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.