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The curious, the scenic and the challenging – a 2023 round up

17th December 2023 4 Comments

It’s been a busy year for holy well work and the main excitement was the publication of my book Holy Wells of County Cork. This was kindly launched by Gary Branigan, author of Ancient and Holy Wells of Dublin and was hosted by the Working Artist Studios, Ballydehob. The book of course took much longer […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: An Blascoad Mór Ballyvourney Bandon Blasket Islands BVM Castleventry Cill Ralaigh eel Illauloughan Knockpatrick Lixnaw Manchán Magan Millstreet Squince Harbour St Barrigone's Well St Brigid St Crohane St Gobnait St Michael St Patrick Stouke Timoleague Tubrid well

Summer meanderings

18th August 2023 7 Comments

In between all the excitement of the book finally being let loose into the world, I have had time to visit a few, mainly local, wells, which had so far escaped detection; and caught up with a few old favourites. Ballybane Holy Well In June Thomas Wiegandt Invited me to inspect his well in Ballybane […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Ballydehob Bandon Bandon Male National School bulllaun BVM Caharagh cross slab eel Father Shinnick ITA Cork pattern day pilgrimage Schools' Folklore Project Schull sore eyes St Brigid Timoleague

A Clonakilty Ramble part 2

6th April 2018 4 Comments

Continuing on from the big day out in Clonakilty environs, four wells still remaining roughly in a direction towards Bandon. The next stop was Kilbrittain but I was momentarily distracted by some interesting things around Ballinascarthy which resulted in a quick stop to admire a ruined cottage, complete with unusually fancy door and windows. A possible […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: 1798 Rebellion Ballinascarthy Bandon boycott Castlenalact Eyes Kilbrittain Land League Lisselane House National Inventory of Architectural Heritage PJ Hartnett Southern Star St Brittain The Battle of the Big Cross William Bence Jones

A Forgotten Quartet off the R586

6th September 2016 Leave a Comment

The road between Drimoleague and Bandon offers the opportunity for many holy well diversions – all of them obscure and quite tricky to find, but all worth pursuing. Today there were four wells on the agenda, each clearly marked on the OS map (Discovery Series 86 covers this area). Well of the Baptisms, Tobar a’Bhaiste, Tobernabastia, Nedinagh […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballineen Bandon Blessed Virgin Mary Brú na Bóinne chambered tomb Creative Bandon Dowth Drimoleague Dromidiclogh Eyes Fanlobbus Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 Kilbrogan mound Nedinagh East Schools' Folklore Project St Bridget Tús WiseWater.ie

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