On the lookout for St Gregory’s Well, Tobar i Choill, in Glenbeigh, a chance conversation in the excellent Emilie’s café alerted us to St Finán’s Well. St Gregory proved elusive, too overgrown, but St Finán’s Well turned out to be a much loved and distinguished well in an imposing situation, located about two kilometres out […]
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Off the beaten track in Corca Dhuibhne
Jim Dempsey of the excellent Megalithic Ireland kindly alerted me to a well on the Dingle Peninsula which he had recently cleared a path to, and he advised that I visit soon before the undergrowth took over once again. That sounded like a good excuse to nip across to Kerry for a few days. Well […]
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, […]
Gazetteer – Limerick & beyond
This section contains information about wells I have visited elsewhere in Ireland. County Carlow County Kilkenny County Limerick County Tipperary County Wicklow
Gazetteer – South Kerry
Wells in South Kerry Cuddy’s Well, Cloc Mo Cuda, Killarney Holy Lake, Bunaw Holy Well, Bunaw Holy Well, Field of the Priest, Inse an tSagairt, near Bonane Lady’s Well, Tobar Mhuire, Kenmare Rolls of Butter, Petrified Dairy, near Bonane St Feaghna’s Well, Toberfeaghna, near Bonane St Finián’s Well, Kenmare St Mary’s Well, Killarney St Peter’s […]