The sudden death of her brother, a musician, marked a threshold that altered everything. It called Niamh to set aside the world of music, media, and entertainment she had carried for years, and to step fully into the calling that had waited in the quiet since childhood. In the first month of the year that followed, Stone Mad was born – the moment when what had been tended in private was given the space to be seen.

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The name held layers. It spoke to her lifelong devotion to crystals and to the deep geology beneath our feet. It also carried the warmth of Irish humour, where to be stone mad about something is to be wild with passion for it. In truth, Niamh is stone mad about many things – the living land, the green medicines it offers, the alchemy of food and scent, the craft of story and ceremony.

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From the beginning her vision was clear. She created spaces where healing could be practiced and shared – a clinic for those in need, a rare dispensary of native herbs, a quiet room for gatherings, and a hedge school for children beneath the open sky. From the mountains around her she gathered wild plants and seasonal foods, shaping them into remedies, balms, and feasts that wove nourishment, beauty, and ceremony together. Foraging walks became shared meals, cooking became teaching, ointments became the passing on of ancestral knowledge.

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As the work unfolded, it grew new branches. Retreats were carried to Spain and Ireland, weaving together light, story, and ritual. Collections emerged – crystallised elixirs and oils, hydrosols and spagyric remedies, apothecaries rooted in folk medicine and the simple craft of making. Over time these threads revealed themselves as five radiant expressions – medicine, food, skincare, ceremony, and teaching. Together they became what Niamh came to call the Stone Mad Healing Star – a constellation of wHolistic healing, guided always by land, lore, and lived experience.

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Stone Mad was not a beginning but a revealing – the moment when what had been seeded long ago came fully into view, ready to be shared with the world.