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Archaeological Inventory

Found, Forgotten, Revisited: a November round up

30th November 2024 3 Comments

A blog highlighting some recently visited wells around County Cork and County Kerry, including some old friends and some new discoveries. It is now reasonable to assume that many holy wells date from before the Christian era and can therefore be hundreds of years old. The first well described may be unusual in that it […]

Filed Under: North Cork North Kerry West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Assumption Bachall Ísu Ballydehob BVM Carrigafoyle Castle Castletown Kinneigh Derrylahan Dunmanway Eyes Farthingville grotto healing Marian year Mitchelstown novena pilgrimage Schools' Folklore Project St Eiltin St Fanahan St Patrick St Senan Stomach ailments

Wonderful Wells & Wild Weather: squelching around the Iveragh

24th November 2023 3 Comments

I’m just back from an excellent long weekend at the inaugural Skellig Coast Archaeology Festival. The weather was atrocious and many events were outside but we were a hardy lot and sallied forth anyway – and there were wells! St Crohane’s Well, Tobar Chrócháin One of the highlights of the programme for me was a […]

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Derrynafinchin: a bullaun, Mass rock & stone circle

16th October 2022 3 Comments

The townland of Derrynafinchin – Doire na Fuinseann which seems to mean rather confusingly oak wood of the ash trees – lies in the incredibly scenic and remote Borlin Valley in West Cork. Everywhere was looking Autumnal and lush in the soft drizzle as we ventured forth. First stop a wayside grotto, tucked neatly into […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Borlin Valley boulder burial bullaun cupmarks Derrynafinchin stone circle grotto Hilary Bishop Mass Mass Rock Penal Times quartz stone circle

A Grand Day Out in Dunworley

16th April 2022 1 Comment

Sometimes I have not visited a well simply because it sounds as though it has long gone and there is literally nothing to see. This can be a dangerous assumption for several wells have been there when eventually visited, often covered in undergrowth but still there. I was contacted by Diarmuid a few weeks ago […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Area of Special Conservation British Museum Donaghmore Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 offerings pilgrimage Promontory fort Roaringwater Journal Samuel Lewis Schools' Folklore Project Seven Heads signal tower St Anne tower house

Off the beaten track in Corca Dhuibhne

7th August 2021 4 Comments

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 […]

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Lockdown Roundup

9th November 2020 7 Comments

Now confined to 5km there’s not much chance of doing any serious well hunting but we did make the most of our last days of freedom and the lockdown is proving to be a good opportunity to update on various wells (and the website). Our final day out was a ramble with with friends around […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballyclogh Corrin Hill Drimoleague Drimoleague Heritage Loop Gouladoo grotto Parc Pods Schools' Folklore Project Schull Sheep's Head st Cranat St Finbarr St Peter

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