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Secrets, signs and sore eyes: Lispole part 2

20th November 2022 8 Comments

After our early morning searching for heads, Billy and I left the others to coffee and went in search of Tobar an Rúin, the Well of the Secret, which proved to be exceptionally well named! Tobar an Rúin, Toberaroon, Well of the Secret, St Gobnait’s Well Encouragingly Billy had been to the well the year […]

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Forgotten battles and decapitated heads: in search of wells around Lispole (1)

9th November 2022 6 Comments

A tale of the powers of research, collaboration and sheer determination! This is the photograph that started it all. Gail Tangney, a fellow well enthusiast, came across this intriguing display during Feile na Bealtine in Dingle, 2021. It came with a a very short description. Did I know anything about it? She also posted in […]

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Sun bright Fionán, jugfuls of whiskey & a raging priest

10th November 2019 8 Comments

Back to Corca Dhuibhne, the Dingle Peninsula, and a stop off at Annascaul to find Tobar na Croise, Well of the Cross. Annascaul is a colourful and attractive little village, best know perhaps as being the home of Tom Crean of South Pole exploration fame. On his retirement from the Navy he and his wife […]

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An Epic Pilgrimage for Michaelmas

28th September 2019 12 Comments

There is a very picturesque area near Baile an Sceilg, Ballinskelligs, on the Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry known as the Glen. It stretches from Duchalla Head to Puffin Island, encompassing the enigmatic Skellig Rocks nine miles off the coast. The most famous rock, Sceilg Mhíchíl, Skellig Michael, was an early Christian settlement, where the monks […]

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