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Forgotten battles and decapitated heads: in search of wells around Lispole (1)

9th November 2022 6 Comments

A tale of the powers of research, collaboration and sheer determination! This is the photograph that started it all. Gail Tangney, a fellow well enthusiast, came across this intriguing display during Feile na Bealtine in Dingle, 2021. It came with a a very short description. Did I know anything about it? She also posted in […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: An Seabhac Corca Dhuibhne Dingle Peninsula Lispole logainm.ie Minard Castle Ordnance Survey Letters Sacred Heart University Dingle Walter Hussey

Sunday’s Well, Kilvickadownig

14th September 2021 9 Comments

Just on the outskirts of Ventry, Fionn Trá or possibly Ceann Trá, is a rare and fascinating museum – the Celtic and Prehistoric Museum, currently visited by appointment only due to Covid restrictions. It’s a personal collection with some truly remarkable artefacts and well worth a visit. However, lurking in the hedge a little further […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Caoimhín ÓDanachair Corca Dhuibhne Dingle Peninsula Kilvickadownig Schools' Folklore Project Slea Head Drive trout Ventry

A Peregrination part 1: the wanderings of St Gobnait

20th February 2021 14 Comments

With time to think, research and mentally meander, St Gobnait has been in my thoughts. I thought it might be interesting to look in detail at her remarkable journey when she too (physically) meandered around Munster, as she searched for the site of her resurrection. It’s a long and complicated wandering and will be covered […]

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Trekking through Glens: Tobar na nGealt

6th July 2019 9 Comments

 … A long time he went faring through all Ireland, poking his way into hard rocky clefts, shouldering through ivy bushes, unsettling falls of pebbles in narrow defiles, wading estuaries, breasting summits, trekking through glens, till he found the natural welcome of Glen Bolcáin. That place is a pastoral asylum, where all madmen Of Ireland […]

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