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Cullen

A Peregrination Part 2: meet the family

28th February 2021 8 Comments

In A Peregrination Part 1, we followed St Gobnait as she started her journey from Inis Oirr on the Aran Islands, through Kerry, Limerick and Waterford as she searched for the place of her resurrection – identifiable by seeing nine white deer. She has already seen a smattering of deer, left a scattering of churches, […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Aghabulloge Cathair Crobh Dearg Colonel Grove White Croabh Dearg Cullen deer Dromtarriff Harry Clarke Kilgobban Kilgobnet Máire MacNeill Millstreet Morrigan Schools' Folklore Project Sean Keating St Gobnait St Inghne Bhuidhe St Laitairian St Olan The City

St Finbarr Revisited & some thoughts on conservation

4th October 2020 8 Comments

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I am finally back in Ireland having spent six months in New Zealand, four months longer than intended due to Covid-19! The virus continues to restrict movements so I decided to revisit two holy wells close to home and see how they were faring. Last time I visited was in 2016 and both wells, both […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Blessed Virgin Mary Castleventry cilleen Colonel Grove White crosses Cullen Derryduff Dunmanway Eyes Glanworth Glen of Comeraportera HMAC Irish Examiner Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 Kilbarry National Monuments Service rag tree Schools' Folklore Project St Dominic St Finbarre St Laitiaran The Kerryman trout Tullylease Tús

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

Old Friends Revisited

8th July 2018 4 Comments

A final trip into the Gaeltacht Mhúscraí was required to find three unvisited wells. We intended to stay in the area for three days, Himself walking the Slí Muscrai Gaeltacht.  I also had a motley quartet in my sights around Newtownshandrum. But we were slightly thwarted by the weather: no, not torrential rain or floods or […]

Filed Under: Other West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Baile Mhúirne Ballingeary Ballyvourney Béál Átha an Ghaorthaidh Blessed Trinity Cattle Coolea Cullen Dromtarriff fulacht fiadh Gaeltacht Mhúscraí Gougane Barra Inghne Bhuide Millstreet Slí Muscrai Gaeltacht St Abbán St Finbarre St Gobnait St Laitiaran Tubrid well Warts

A trio of Wells in Tullylease

27th June 2016 8 Comments

The enchanting North Cork village of Tullylease was once the site of a large ecclesiastical settlement founded by the wonderfully named St Berrihert (his name can be spelled in a huge number of ways: Bearhtwine,  Bearcheart, Berechtuine, Berikert, Berichter, Berectchert, Berechtir, and Berehert, but locally he is mercifully known as St Ben and that’s what […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Anglo-Saxon Annals of Four Masters Blessed Virgin Mary bullaun Cloch na hEilte Colonel Grove White Cromwell cross slab Cullen deer deer stone druid Headaches milk monastic settlement pilgrimage Poulavare Rosary rounds Schools' Folklore Project st Berrihert Synod of Whitby

Three sisters, Two wells around Cullen

6th May 2016 13 Comments

The area around Cullen in North Cork reveres three saintly sisters: St Lasair, St Laitairian and St Inghne Bhuidhe – the spellings of these names vary enormously! Who they were seems complicated. Some accounts refer to them as being from the north of England for the wonderfully named St Beirechert (also spelled in a multitude […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Bealtine BVM Canon O Hanlon Cloch na gCursa clootie tree Colonel Grove White Cullen dallan Eyes Grove White handball alley Killasseragh Men's health Mushera pattern day rag tree rounds Schools' Folklore Project St Berichert St Gobnait St Inghe Bhuidhe St Laitiaran St lasair trout Tullylease

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