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North Cork

St Brigid’s Well, Castlemagner

16th March 2016 12 Comments

This has to be one of my favourite wells visited so far. We had had an energetic day searching out holy wells in North Cork and this was the last on the agenda. It is not easy to find and seems to be on the fold of several different OS maps but eventually, after much […]

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St Abban’s Well, Tobar Abán, Baile Mhúirne

13th February 2016 12 Comments

I visited this little well on the 11th February, the feast day of St Gobnait, but was so entranced that I felt it deserved its own page. Appropriately enough St Abán is meant to have been the brother, or possibly the mentor, of St Gobnait and  it may have been he who founded the religious […]

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