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Archaeological Inventory

Water into Wine & Other Stories; three wells dedicated to St Brendan

30th August 2019 8 Comments

There are a wealth of wells dedicated to St Brendan in County Kerry. So far I have visited where he was baptised, where he anointed two heathens, where he received the vision to go across the Atlantic and various others that are dedicated to this well beloved and wandering saint. Three more were on my […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballyferriter bullaun callarugh Carl Von Sydow cilleen Corca Dhuibhne Corca Dhuibne 3D Cosán na Naomh cupmarks Epiphany fish Game of Thrones Kilcolman ecclesiastical enclosure Kildurrihy Kilmalkedar Maltese cross Max von Sydow Ogham pilgrim routes pilgrimage Schools' Folklore Project St Brendan St Gobnait's Stone Star Wars Ventry water to wine

Tobar Fláinn: on the edge of the World

11th August 2019 5 Comments

Whilst up Mount Brandon and chatting with Mícheal he asked me if I had been to St Flainn’s Well. I confessed I had not, mainly because the Archaeological Inventory is rather dismissive: Toberyline/Tobar Flainn: Located at the base of the sea cliffs immediately S of Brandon point. It is a ‘clear spring in a rock […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Brandon Caoimhín ÓDanachair clochán Cloghane Lunasa Mount Brandon penitential station St Brendan St Flainn

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

On Wells 5: Their Sacred Trees

24th January 2019 10 Comments

One of the most encouraging sights to see is a lone tree in a field, one that has been carefully left to its own devices, for often under that tree is a holy well. Holy wells and sacred trees go together perfectly for, like wells, trees have long been subjects of devotion and mystery. Found […]

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Wild out East

13th January 2019 14 Comments

The last few wells in East Cork beckoned and on paper they sounded rather a motley crew. The reality was pretty much the same but a very interesting story was revealed. We stayed in Cobh overnight and enjoyed a beautiful evening light. The buildings glowed and we strolled along the Prom, admired St Colman’s Cathedral, […]

Filed Under: East Cork Tagged With: Ahane Cross Archaeological Inventory Ballybrassil Carrigaline Cobh eel Great Island Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 Marloag Minane Bridge Schools' Folklore Project Tracton Walterstown

Some Favourite Wells of 2018

30th December 2018 4 Comments

It’s been a good year for well hunting, worthy of a quick round up of some of my favourite sites. I reckon I have visited around 150 or so holy wells in the last twelve months, all unique and all in different states of preservation, activity and care. Although most wells are to be found […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Avebury Ballybrack Blessed Virgin Mary Burnfort Buttevant; Cattle cross slabs cursing stones; Derryroe frog high cross Kenmare Kerry Kilpadder Millstreet Mushera Mór Rathcormack Mountain Rheumatism River Awbeg Silbury Hill St Baoithin St Bericheart St John the Baptist St Michael St Peter and St Paul St Ruadháin Tipperary trout Warts

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