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Buile Suibhne

The Good, the Mad and the Strange: a round up of 2019

18th December 2019 4 Comments

A quick round up of some of the more intriguing wells visited in 2019. It’s been a busy year for I officially completed my research on the holy wells in County Cork: 310 wells visited and recorded, and then ventured forth into County Kerry. A long visit to New Zealand followed by a horrible bout […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Iveragh Peninsula North Cork North Kerry Tagged With: bile blessed fish Blessed Virgin Mary Buile Suibhne bullaun bulley butter stone Cnoc na dTobar Eyes Lunasa Mount Brandon pattern day pilgrimage Rheumatism rounds St Buonia St Crohane St Erc St Feaghna St Fursey St Macadaw St Manchán St Michael Stations of Cross trout Warts

Trekking through Glens: Tobar na nGealt

6th July 2019 9 Comments

 … A long time he went faring through all Ireland, poking his way into hard rocky clefts, shouldering through ivy bushes, unsettling falls of pebbles in narrow defiles, wading estuaries, breasting summits, trekking through glens, till he found the natural welcome of Glen Bolcáin. That place is a pastoral asylum, where all madmen Of Ireland […]

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A brief encounter …

26th September 2018 9 Comments

… But what an enjoyable one. I’m in Kerry collecting Himself who has just completed the Sli Chorca Dhuibhne – excellent walking though the weather was sometimes a little challenging. Whilst he finishes some drawings I go off to explore for I know there’s a well in the townland in which we’re staying near Ceann […]

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