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A Peregrination Part 3: The home run

7th March 2021 6 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: North Cork Other South Kerry West Cork Tagged With: Baile Mhic Ire Baile Mhúirne Ballinadee Ballymackeera Ballyvourney bees bullaun cilleen Clondrohid deer Dripsey Indulgence John Connell O Sullivan beare pilgrimage Schools' Folklore Project Seamus Murphy Sheep's Head shrine St Abbán St Gobnait St Gobnait's Stone

Piety, Pleasure & Miraculous Tussocks: Killmackillogue

6th January 2020 10 Comments

This sounded an intriguing place – a holy well that in fact might be a lake but which may no longer be there, remembered for its miraculous floating tussocks! We set out to investigate, heading to a remote coastal tip of the Beara Peninsula – Bunaw/Kilmackilloge, just off the R574 from Kenmare to Lauragh. The […]

Filed Under: South Kerry Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Beara Peninsula Bunaw Dictionary of Irish Saints Francis Joseph Bigger Franconia Frank Miller Germany Healy Pass hermitage Irish Times Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Kenmare Kerry Kiliani-Volkfest Kilmackilloge Lough Mackeenlaun Mass Rock Michael D Higgins Mullagh pattern pilgrimage pilgrims relic reliquary Rev D O Donaghue Rosita Boland rounds Schools' Folklore Project St Kilian Tuosist tussocks Wurzburg

Enchantment & Petrification: St Feaghna’s Well, Bonane

11th December 2019 16 Comments

This has to be one of the most extraordinary and unusual sites yet visited. Extraordinary in so many ways: from the setting, to the monuments to the folklore. Apologies for the length of this post but I was immersed and enchanted! Veering off the N71 from Glengarriff to Kenmare, you encounter a myriad of tiny […]

Filed Under: South Kerry Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory blessed bush Bonane bullaun Cattle cilleen Constellation of Orion cursing stones; Easter Francis Joseph Bigger Garranes homing stone John O Donovan Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries keelers Kenmare Kilmalkedar Kilpatrick Kilruddery Mr and Mrs SC Hall Petrified Dairy pilgrimage Priest's Leap Rheumatism Rolls of Butter rounds Schools' Folklore Project St Feaghna turas Warts Winter Solstice

Tobar an Bhile & a lot of Serendipity

20th April 2019 10 Comments

Many years ago, and I’m talking about the late 1990s, we came for a family holiday in Kerry, staying in a cottage on the old butter road high on the slopes above Coad Mountain not far from Caherdaniel. Whilst in the local shop, I saw a notice about a pattern day at a holy well […]

Filed Under: South Kerry Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory bile blessed tree butter road Caherdaniel Caoimhín ÓDanachair cave Coad Church Coad Mountain copper mines Duchás Photographic Collection Eagle's Hill Eyes hermitage Kilcrohane Lunasa Mass Rock pilgrimage rounds Schools' Folklore Project St Brendan St Crohane Stations of the Cross Windy Gap

A trip across the border 2: Killarney wells

2nd June 2018 6 Comments

Part two of my Kerry excursion and a trip to Killarney meant various holy wells required visiting. The first was right in the centre of the town. St Mary’s Well, Killarney St Mary’s Well is in the town itself, conveniently near the central car park. It is an unexpected sight amidst the bustle of Killarney […]

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A trip across the Kerry Border 1: Kenmare

19th May 2018 10 Comments

Himself is walking the Kerry Way and required a lift to Kenmare – a great opportunity to nip across to County Kerry, enjoy the sights and possibly seek out a few holy wells. The drive is a fabulous one – everything just gets bigger and more spectacular and more rugged almost the minute you are […]

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