• 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

cross slabs

Circles, swastikas & labyrinths: enigmas on the Iveragh

19th January 2024 9 Comments

The first well expedition of the year set off at a cracking pace as we, in the company of the Roaringwaters, set off for the Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry, rock art and holy wells on our minds. After a damp, mild and very wet Christmas the second week in January was cold, crisp and sunny […]

Filed Under: Iveragh Peninsula South Kerry Tagged With: bullaun cilleen Cloon Lake cross slabs Derrynablaha ITA Kerry leacht National Library of Ireland OPW pillar stone pink fish Roaringwater Journal rock art Shronahiree More St Colman

Cill Rialagh: an elusive well on the edge of the world

5th June 2023 10 Comments

Still in Kerry and a wild and remote spot on the agenda today – Cill Rialaigh, or Kildreelig, an early ecclesiastical settlement on a small headland, clinging onto the cliffs – with a holy well. First we were distracted by St Michael’s Well, Tobar Mhíchíl, near Ballinskelligs, visited before but always worth a revisit. We […]

Filed Under: Iveragh Peninsula Tagged With: Archaeological Survey for Kerry Ballinskelligs Bolás head cashel Cill Rialaig Artist's Retreat Cill Rialaigh cross slabs early ecclesiastical settlement Kildreelig National Folklore Photographic Collection St Michael

In the Wake of St Finán

4th July 2021 12 Comments

How nice to be out and about in County Kerry after a long enforced lockdown due to Covid-19. We spent a few days in Waterville on the Iveragh Peninsula mainly in pursuit of St Finán Cam. This elusive and complex saint is fascinating and may need a blog to himself at some point for he […]

Filed Under: Iveragh Peninsula Tagged With: Caherlehillan Church Island cross slabs Eyes leacht Lough Currane Lough Luíoch oratory pilgrimage quartz Schools' Folklore Project shrine St Finán St Finnian trout UCC Waterville

Tobar Manacháin agus an Madra

21st July 2019 11 Comments

I’m back in the Gaeltacht having finished an intense but rewarding week on an Irish language immersion course in Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, Corca Dhuibhne;  Ballyferriter, Dingle Peninsula. (There’ll be a lot of Irish in this blog, hopefully mainly spelled correctly, but it seems only right to give names in Irish first). The course was very […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Áine Ó Dubhshláine Backache Ballyferriter bonfire Caoimhín ÓDanachair Christmas Day cross slabs Dingle Earache Easter Sunday eel Gaeltacht Gallarus Oratory Lateeve Mor Mass Mount Brandon Ogham oratory Penny's Pottery Rosary rounds salmon Schools' Folklore Project souterrain. St Bridget St Manchán Teampall Geal Tig Áine Toothache Ventry WG Wood Martin

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

Diversions in Tipperary Part 2

17th June 2018 16 Comments

Still feeling tranquil and otherworldly from our visit to St Peakaun’s monastic site, we travelled another few miles deeper into the Glen of Aherlow to visit somewhere I have long wished to experience – St Berrihert’s Kyle. St Berrihert’s Kyle We parked, GPS suggesting we needed to go across the fields. A car passed us […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: bullaun Burns cilleen cross slabs cursing stones; Glen of Aherlow high cross Jacob kyle Mass offerings OPW rounds St Bericheart Stations of Cross Synod of Whitby

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...