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Carrigaline

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

On Wells 4: Pilgrimage, Partying & Paying the Rounds

7th January 2019 9 Comments

You can of course visit a holy well any day of the week but there are certain times when a visit is considered to be especially potent. The main day for visiting a well is the pattern day or pátrún day, usually celebrated on the patron saint’s feast day. St John’s wells are visited on […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Act to Prevent Further Growth of Popery Ballyvourney Bantry Carrigaline Castletownbere Cullen Decree of Excommunication faction fighting Gougane Barra John Barrow Kealkil Lough Hyne Millstreet Mitchelstown pattern day PJ Hartnett sile na gig Southern Reporter St Bartholomew St Bridget St Colman St Fanahan St Finbarre St Gobnait St John St Olan Stations of Cross Synod of Tuam Thomas Crofton Croker Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry William Carleton William Wilde

On Wells 3: Saints & Sinners

13th December 2018 2 Comments

All holy wells hold a capacity for healing. As far as I can ascertain, there some subtle distinctions between them: a Blessed Well, Tobar Beannaithe, holds a cure – often for sore eye or warts while Tobar Slanán, a health giving well, as the name suggest, contains water that is good for you and may or […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Ali Isaac Bachall Ísu Bealtine Biddy Tree Blessed Virgin Mary Boann Cape Clear Carrigaline Colonel Grove White Feast of the Assumption Feast of the Immaculate Conception Gougane Barra Imbolc Kerry Kilnamartyra Kinsale Lunasa Marian year May Day Midsummer Millstreet Mór Pope John XV River Boyne River Lee Samhain Schools' Folklore Project St Bericheart St Bridget St Ciarán St Colman St Finnian St Gobnait St John the Baptist St Lachteen St Michael St Patrick

Tobar Eoin Óg, St John’s Well, Carrigaline

24th June 2016 6 Comments

Today is the Feast of St John the Baptist, a good example of one of those Christian festivals that neatly superimposed itself upon a much older pagan celebration, for it is also Midsummer – an ancient Celtic festival when fires were lit to honour Áine, the goddess associated with the sun, fertility and the protection […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Áine; ash tree Bonfire Night; Carrigaline Carrigaline Pipe Band Cattle fish Holy Year of Mercy Mass Midsummer Owenboy River pilgrimage Rosary rounds Schools' Folklore Project St John St John the Baptist Thomas Flanagan

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