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

16th March 2025 5 Comments

Sometimes things come together in unexpected ways and at unexpected moments! Visiting my hairdresser recently, the talk of course got round to holy wells! She mentioned that she had been discussing local wells with another client and the well at Meenvane had come up. I confessed that I thought I had mis-identified this one and […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: cupmarks fairy fort Meenvane Bridge Mt Gabriel offerings ringfort Schools' Folklore Project Schull souterrain. Warts

Derrynafinchin: a bullaun, Mass rock & stone circle

16th October 2022 3 Comments

The townland of Derrynafinchin – Doire na Fuinseann which seems to mean rather confusingly oak wood of the ash trees – lies in the incredibly scenic and remote Borlin Valley in West Cork. Everywhere was looking Autumnal and lush in the soft drizzle as we ventured forth. First stop a wayside grotto, tucked neatly into […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Borlin Valley boulder burial bullaun cupmarks Derrynafinchin stone circle grotto Hilary Bishop Mass Mass Rock Penal Times quartz stone circle

Water into Wine & Other Stories; three wells dedicated to St Brendan

30th August 2019 8 Comments

There are a wealth of wells dedicated to St Brendan in County Kerry. So far I have visited where he was baptised, where he anointed two heathens, where he received the vision to go across the Atlantic and various others that are dedicated to this well beloved and wandering saint. Three more were on my […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballyferriter bullaun callarugh Carl Von Sydow cilleen Corca Dhuibhne Corca Dhuibne 3D Cosán na Naomh cupmarks Epiphany fish Game of Thrones Kilcolman ecclesiastical enclosure Kildurrihy Kilmalkedar Maltese cross Max von Sydow Ogham pilgrim routes pilgrimage Schools' Folklore Project St Brendan St Gobnait's Stone Star Wars Ventry water to wine

Island Wells 4: Oileán Baoi; Dursey Island

11th July 2017 Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks ago I travelled to Dursey with a friend, her friend, a husband and a dog, two wells on the agenda. Although we had a wonderful day, the well hunt was not entirely successful as the field in which the first well was supposedly located contained a lot of very large cattle, […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: ballaun stone Beara Bronze Age Bruno O Donoghue cable car cupmarks Penelope Durell quartz Rosary rounds Scariff Islands

Some thoughts on Bullauns

25th November 2016 9 Comments

Travelling around looking for holy wells, as you do, it is remarkable how often a bullaun is encountered – either situated near a well or sometimes described as the well itself.  A bullaun is, at its most simple, a man-made hollow carved in a rock. They crop up all over the place and there are […]

Filed Under: Other West Cork Tagged With: cupmarks font ironworking; Jack Roberts Mass Rock Penal Times pillar stone ringfort stoup

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