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Drimoleague

Lockdown Roundup

9th November 2020 7 Comments

Now confined to 5km there’s not much chance of doing any serious well hunting but we did make the most of our last days of freedom and the lockdown is proving to be a good opportunity to update on various wells (and the website). Our final day out was a ramble with with friends around […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballyclogh Corrin Hill Drimoleague Drimoleague Heritage Loop Gouladoo grotto Parc Pods Schools' Folklore Project Schull Sheep's Head st Cranat St Finbarr St Peter

On Wells 2: the Water & the Cure

6th December 2018 11 Comments

The most significant thing about a holy well is of course the water. Not all wells are wells though, they can be springs, lakes, scoops in rock, ponds, hollows in trees or part of a stream. And not all wells now contain water  – 37 holy wells visited were dry. Hopefully a few of those […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Ballykerwick baptism Blessed Virgin Mary bullaun Castlemagner; Cattle Cloyne Crannahulla Donoughmore Drimoleague Eyes Gougane Barra Irish Times Knockyrouke Lissagriffin Lough Hyne Mary Brenneman Murrain River Lee Ronan Foley Schools' Folklore Project Skibbereen Heritage Centre St Bridget st Cranat St Finbarre St Lachteen St Olan Templeboden Thomas Crofton Croker Walter Brenneman Warts

Some wells are invisible: exploring around Enniskean

27th March 2017 7 Comments

Some wells prove difficult! I had five wells on the agenda today, all remote and my expectations of finding anything were low. This proved entirely justified. But I did get to explore some beautiful areas in the crisp Spring sunshine. St Srufan’s Well, Drimoleague First stop, St Strufan’s Well, long vanished according to the Archaeological […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Ballinacarriga Castle Ballingeary Historical Society; Bruno O Donoghue bullaun Cineal Laoghaire cloicteach Coolmountain Coppeen Desertserges Drimoleague Inchigeelagh John Windele Kinneigh National Library of Ireland railway station round tower St Colman St Mocholmóg St Patrick Warts West Cork Eagle WG Wood Martin William Frazer

A Forgotten Quartet off the R586

6th September 2016 Leave a Comment

The road between Drimoleague and Bandon offers the opportunity for many holy well diversions – all of them obscure and quite tricky to find, but all worth pursuing. Today there were four wells on the agenda, each clearly marked on the OS map (Discovery Series 86 covers this area). Well of the Baptisms, Tobar a’Bhaiste, Tobernabastia, Nedinagh […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballineen Bandon Blessed Virgin Mary Brú na Bóinne chambered tomb Creative Bandon Dowth Drimoleague Dromidiclogh Eyes Fanlobbus Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 Kilbrogan mound Nedinagh East Schools' Folklore Project St Bridget Tús WiseWater.ie

Two wells on the way home from the airport

1st August 2016 4 Comments

 Well of the Ague, Tobar na Creathaighe, Tobernacrohy, Ballinhassig Never one to miss an opportunity to discover some new wells, I managed to fit in a bit of exploration on my way home from an airport visit. The first well proved exceptionally elusive mainly because my map reading skills are pretty dreadful and I had […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Ague Ballinhassig Drimoleague Eyes malaria rounds

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