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Circles, swastikas & labyrinths: enigmas on the Iveragh

19th January 2024 9 Comments

The first well expedition of the year set off at a cracking pace as we, in the company of the Roaringwaters, set off for the Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry, rock art and holy wells on our minds. After a damp, mild and very wet Christmas the second week in January was cold, crisp and sunny […]

Filed Under: Iveragh Peninsula South Kerry Tagged With: bullaun cilleen Cloon Lake cross slabs Derrynablaha ITA Kerry leacht National Library of Ireland OPW pillar stone pink fish Roaringwater Journal rock art Shronahiree More St Colman

Vikings, priests & enigmatic bullauns in South Kerry

24th October 2022 6 Comments

Recently my friend Pól sent me some interesting information about a well near Bonane in South Kerry and wondered if I had visited it yet: Tobar na Lochlannach. Tá an tobar sin suidhte ar an dtaobh thiar den pharóisde ar bharr an chnuic, Nuair bhí na Lochlannaigh ag déanamh beorach as an bhfraoich gheibhidís uisge […]

Filed Under: South Kerry Tagged With: Bonane bullaun Gortnabinny heather ale Inse an TSagairt Penal Times Schools' Folklore Project Vikings Warts

A holy stone & a crooked half crown: meandering in South Kerry

21st July 2022 10 Comments

A quick field trip to County Kerry recently produced a couple of interesting finds. The first was a bullaun stone, recognised as a holy well, now enclosed in its own ivy-covered stone enclosure at the side of the Cloonalassan road out for Castlemaine. Closer inspection revealed the bullaun to be large, flush with the ground […]

Filed Under: South Kerry Tagged With: Barbara Freitag bullaun BVM Castlemaine Celeste Ray Kilsarkan Kiltallagh offerings Patricia O Hare pilgrimage rag tree rounds Schools' Folklore Project sile na gig sore eyes St Carthage St Mochuda

The Case of the Missing Spectacles: All Saints’ Well, Loo Bridge, near Kilgarvan

3rd May 2022 12 Comments

Finally back in County Kerry and in search of a holy well that has long intrigued me: All Saints’ Well, Tobar na Naomh near Loo Bridge, Kilgarvan. This is the folklore that enticed me: There is a well at Loo Bridge called Tobar na Naomh. The people around the place go doing rounds to the […]

Filed Under: South Kerry Tagged With: All Saints Ardtully Castle Caoimhín ÓDanachair Eyes Folklore Photographic Collection Glenflesk Good Friday Gougane Barra ITA Kerry Kilgarvan Kilpadder Loo Bridge pattern day pilgrimage rounds Schools' Folklore Project Slighe na Naomh spectacles St Agatha St Finbarr St Peter & St Paul

Three Stragglers in South Kerry: Coolmagort & Kilclogherane

6th November 2021 10 Comments

Whilst trawling through photos, I came across three wells which had somehow escaped being recorded. All are in South Kerry not far from Killarney. Tobar Críosta, Toberchreest, Well of Christ, St Brigid’s Well, Dunloe Tobar Críosta is in the townland of Coolmagort, wild and scenic country to the west of Killarney near the Gap of […]

Filed Under: South Kerry Tagged With: bullaun Caoimhín ÓDanachair Coolmagort Duchás Photographic Collection Easter Gap of Dunloe Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 kilclogherane Killarney Ogham rounds Schools' Folklore Project souterrain. St Bridget trout

Trout & Tussocks: the Strangeness of Holy Lakes

11th October 2021 9 Comments

I don’t know what the situation is in other counties but Cork and Kerry seem to have a fondness for holy lakes. In County Cork for example, the entire Lake at Gougane Barra was once considered sacred for it was here that St Finbarr wrestled with the resident water serpent, Tú, and of course won. […]

Filed Under: South Kerry West Cork Tagged With: Beara Peninsula blessed fish Derrylough eels fish Gougane Barra holy lake Lough Adereen Lough Mackeenlaw miraculous tussocks Parknasilla pattern day pilgrimage rag tree rounds St Anne St Kilian Wurzburg

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