I’m delighted, and slightly terrified, to announce that my book, Holy Wells of County Cork, will be launched on Friday 21st July at the Working Artist Studios, Main Street, Ballydehob, from 5pm. Gary Branigan, author of The Ancient and Holy Wells of Dublin, will kindly be doing the honours. The book can now be pre-ordered […]
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New book: a sneaky preview
I haven’t had much time for fieldwork recently and this is the reason! This book is the result of seven years visiting, recording and researching as many of the of the 358 holy wells in County Cork as was physically possible – 330 at the last count with 28 still remaining elusive. I think this […]
Well Hunting in the time of Covid
The last two years have been most strange and disconcerting, and we’re not out of the woods yet. Well hunting has been severely curtailed but I thought it might be interesting to do a quick round up of some of the wells visited during the moments lockdown was lifted. A trip to North Kerry in […]
St Kevin’s Holy Well, Glendalough
Enjoying a few days in County Wicklow, we visited the magical site that is Glendalough. A place of outstanding natural beauty, it comprises a lush valley, surrounded by mountains and two lakes, the perfect place for a wild hike – or a hermitage. It is also rich in an incredible variety of historic and religious […]
A Peregrination Part 3: The home run
Having toured North Cork in part 2 of her peregrination, visited three possible sisters and a brother, St Gobnait remains in County Cork for the last leg of her journey; but before embarking on the home straight makes an inexplicable journey down to West Cork – sure, why wouldn’t you! Kilgobbin, Ballinadee St Gobnait then […]
A Peregrination Part 2: meet the family
In A Peregrination Part 1, we followed St Gobnait as she started her journey from Inis Oirr on the Aran Islands, through Kerry, Limerick and Waterford as she searched for the place of her resurrection – identifiable by seeing nine white deer. She has already seen a smattering of deer, left a scattering of churches, […]