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Fursey, Friday & Sunday: well hunting around Banteer

3rd December 2017 10 Comments

Day 2 of the Banteer explorations and the the first well on today’s agenda was very close to where we were staying. St Fursey’s Well (or Forsin or Forsa or Fursa) seemed to lie just outside an old graveyard. We found the graveyard easily enough, right beside the road and very enticing it was too […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Banteer BVM Colonel Grove White deer Eyes Fermoyle frog General Good Friday King of Sunday Mass Rock offerings rounds Schools' Folklore Project shrine St Fursey St Gobnait St Gobnait's Stone statue trout

St Ita & St Finnian: more exploring around Millstreet

30th November 2017 8 Comments

North Cork is rich in holy wells and although we have made several fruitful exploratory visits already, there are still plenty of interesting sites to visit. We travelled with our friends Robert and Finola of Roaringwater Journal fame and treated ourselves to two nights in a large and spacious Airbnb just outside Banteer. St Ita’s […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: ballaun Blessed Virgin Mary Eddie Lenihan fulacht fiadh General Kilmeedy Castle piseog Roaringwater Journal Schools' Folklore Project St Finnian St Ita St Laitiaran

Meandering south of Mallow

9th September 2017 6 Comments

Four wells on the agenda today, all south of Mallow and all having interesting and detailed write ups by Colonel Grove White in his Historical and Topological Notes etc. Ania’s Well, Tobar Aine, Dromore As we approached Dromore House, (now called Nazareth House and run by the Sisters of Nazareth as a holistic centre) where the well […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Ballyvourney Colonel Grove White Dromore eel Eyes Kilcolman Kilgobnet Kilshannig Lameness National Inventory of Architectural Heritage pattern day rounds Schools' Folklore Project Sisters of Nazareth Skarragh Wood St Gobnait trout

St Gregory & St Catherine: two secretive wells in North Cork

1st September 2017 Leave a Comment

Visiting North Cork with some friends we headed in the direction of Glanworth, first stopping off at two saintly wells: one dedicated to St Gregory and the other to St Catherine.  Gregory’s Well, Tobercarrown, Ballyshonock This well is not marked on the current OS map but is referred to as Tobercarrown on the historic 25 […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Black & Tans Bowen Court Colonel Grove White de Valera Elizabeth Bowen Eyes Farahy River Glanworth Mallow Field Journal Schools' Folklore Project

St Declan, St Leonard & a Poor Child

26th August 2017 6 Comments

St Declan’s Well, Tobarnadeecla Be warned this well, dedicated to St Declan or St Decla, is marked on the current OS map but on the wrong side of the very busy N20 just north of Buttevant! The GPS on, I was risking life and limb trying to access where I thought the well was, traffic […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Blessed Trinity Buttevant; Charleville Crannavella tree Eyes Newtownshandrum St Declan St Leonard St Theresa statue

The Rakes of Mallow

20th August 2017 Leave a Comment

Who knew Mallow was so exciting? It’s a place that we normally just drive through on our way to somewhere else but today we stopped, three wells on the agenda. The first one I knew no long existed but I wanted to visit the site anyway. Well of the Breast, Toberaroughta, Mallow This well is […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Annabella Park Archaeological Inventory for Cork Bath Spa Calgary Daily Herald Colonel Grove White crucifix Kevin Myers Mallow Field Club Journal Mallow railway station National Inventory of Architectural Heritage pump house spa St Gobnait The Rakes of Mallow Topological Dictionary of Ireland

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