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Enchantment & Petrification: St Feaghna’s Well, Bonane

11th December 2019 16 Comments

This has to be one of the most extraordinary and unusual sites yet visited. Extraordinary in so many ways: from the setting, to the monuments to the folklore. Apologies for the length of this post but I was immersed and enchanted! Veering off the N71 from Glengarriff to Kenmare, you encounter a myriad of tiny […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Diversions in Tipperary Part 1

13th June 2018 4 Comments

This blog seems to be expanding geographically! I have just been to County Carlow for a few days, a journey which seemed to go through many different counties and was full of interesting places on the way including a host of holy wells which just had to be visited and recorded, so the next few […]

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In search of St Mologa

20th February 2017 7 Comments

Today we were in search of St Mologa, two wells on the agenda both within a few miles of each other: one in Templemologa (church of Mologa) and the other at Labbamologa (bed of Mologa) – the area between the two seemingly being the Tearmon or sacred space, where Mologa offered protection and sanctuary. The […]

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