• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Holy Wells of Cork & Kerry

not all who wander are lost

  • Home
  • Blog
  • On Wells
    • A Few Statistics
    • The Water & the Cure
    • Saints & Sinners
    • Pilgrimage, Partying & Paying the Rounds
    • Sacred Trees
    • Blessed Fish
    • Feast Days (dates)
  • Gazetteer
    • Cork City
    • East Cork
    • North Cork
    • West Cork
    • Dingle Peninsula
    • Iveragh Peninsula & Valentia Island
    • North Kerry
    • South Kerry
    • Elsewhere
  • Contact me
  • Privacy Policy

Bones

Thinking Out Gobnait

23rd June 2019 14 Comments

A visit to Corca Dhuibhne, the Dingle Peninsula, and the Gaeltacht, with several interesting wells on the agenda (an oxymoron surely). First stop, Dún Chaoin, Dunquin, and Ionad agus Oileán an Bhlascaoid Mhór, the Blasket Centre, Designed over 25 years ago and nestling respectfully into the landscape, this is an interesting building containing a fascinating display […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Aran Islands Ballyvourney bees Blasket Centre Blasket Islands Bones cairn Caoimhín ÓDanachair Cliodna Cussen clochán Dunquin Gaeltacht Harry Clarke Honan Chapel Imbolc Inis Oirr Kerry Robert Mitchum rounds Ryan's Daughter Sean Keating Seán Mac tSithigh. St Gobnait stone cross The Holy Wells of Corkaguiney Toothache University College Cork

Putting things off ’til later

6th May 2018 12 Comments

Continuing from the last blog, still in the Gaeltacht and back to Baile Bhúirne (Ballyvourney). I had almost visited the next three wells once before, on the Trail of St Lachteen. They all looked in remote and challenging locations, and the descriptions for each were rather curt and unexciting. I had resolved to put them […]

Filed Under: Other West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballymakeera Bones Bruno O Donoghue bullaun cashel Gaeltacht Mhúscraí Gougane Barra Inchigeelagh Kilnamartyra King of Sunday offerings St Finbarre St Lachteen Warts

Blessed Well, Tobar Beannaithe, Sheep’s Head

2nd March 2016 8 Comments

Gooladoo holy well

This well is in such a wild and remote spot. Walking down from the Goat’s Path through boggy pasture, a ridged path is discernible, flagged by large stones. This takes you down through fields towards a green plateau. The landscape first has to be admired for it is breath-taking. The plateau is in fact part […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Bantry Bay Bones Evelyn Hardy Goat's Path Gooladoo Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 offerings Promontory fort Rheumatism Schools' Folklore Project Sheep's Head Toothache

Primary Sidebar

Follow my blog by e-mail

Enter your email address to be told when I publish a new post. You can un-subscribe at any time.

Join 351 other subscribers.

Recent posts

Two go wild in Cornwall

Travelling hopefully around Tralee

A mysterious well at the end of the world – St Erc, Kerry Head

A fairy Fort, a foxy woman & an enigmatic stone: Meenvane, Schull

Monthly Archive

Index of tags

tree fairy a Ribbonson

An alphabetical list of all the tags used on this site … → about Index of Tags

© 2025 Amanda Clarke

 

Loading Comments...