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En route to Mitchelstown

6th February 2017 1 Comment

Well hunting is always an enjoyable experience especially when you devote a few days to it. Wells in North Cork beckoned. We stayed for a few days in Mitchelstown in the very comfortable Ballinwillin House, complete with free range deers and boars. A welcome break on the M8 on the way up saw a diversion […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: ahs tree anchorites Blackwater Céili Dé Coole Abbey Eyes Fermoy Martyrology of Donegal offerings rounds Schools' Folklore Project squint St Abbán St Dalbach turas

A bit of a Sow’s Ear

8th January 2017 6 Comments

Today we headed off towards Kinsale with our friends Robert and Finola from Roaringwater Journal fame, stained glass and holy wells on the agenda. Finola is giving a talk on stained glass shorlty and wanted to take photos of the windows in St Multose, Kinsale. The church is closed  in the winter, apart from services, […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Ahane Cross Blessed Virgin Mary Cruachan Wood Edward Welby Pugin Eyes Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 Kinsale quartz Schools' Folklore Project St Bridget St Finnian St Multose; St Patrick stained glass Templebreedy Tracton

An Arboreal Theme

9th December 2016 Leave a Comment

Fuelled with coffee at Budds in Ballydehob we headed off on the R586 towards Bandon, five wells in the GPS. Holy Well, Killowen First stop, a sharp left after Murragh and up an unexpected glen, full of dense foliage and the sound of dripping water. We parked in a layby and Ger just happened to […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: alder tree ballaun stone Blessed Virgin Mary carvings Christigram Eyes General Ginni Swanton Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 King of Sunday Knockavilla Mass Rock Murragh Newcestown ringfort rounds Schools' Folklore Project Warts yew tree

On the Trail of St Lachteen

2nd December 2016 8 Comments

Today we ventured inland into the Gaeltacht  in the search of St Lachteen. St Lachteen (526- 622AD) is patron saint of the Kilnamatrya area, cill na matra meaning church of the relic. This relic in question was an armbone of the saint, housed in an extraordinary artefact: the Lámh Lachtáin. The gorgeous reliquary dates from […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: ballaun stone Cloch Ghobnatan Cloheena Donoughmore Eyes Gaeltacht General Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 Kilnamatrya; Lámh Lachtáin Mohemeth National Museum of Ireland quartz Reananarree reliquary St Abbán St Gobnait St Lachteen

Well Hunting around Ballinspittle

11th November 2016 18 Comments

A crisp clear morning in Kinsale, we had four wells on the agenda on our way home. First stop Lady’s Well, just over the bridge at Ringrone.  Lady’s Well, Tobar Mhuire, Ringrone The well looked to lie quite close to the road in pasture. According to the Archaeological Inventory, it no longer had holy use […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Aeongus the Culdee Anne Bonney Ballinspittle Bullen family BVM clochán Courtaparteen Diarmuid Mac Cerbhaill Eyes famine village Féilire of Aeongus grotto ITA Cork Kilroan King of Sunday Kinsale Lorrha Mass Rock pebbles Ringrone Sir John de Courcy St Ruadháin Tara Warts

In Search of Cats around Toe Head

7th November 2016 Leave a Comment

The day being fine we set out for Toe Head, a small peninsula somewhere below Skibbereen roughly towards Castletownsend. There were three wells on the agenda and I was not very hopeful about finding any of them. Once off the main Castletownsend road the roads become quite challenging but highly scenic: tiny bumpy roads with […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: ballaun stone Bronze Age cup marks Eyes General Jack Roberts Mass Rock quartz ringfort rock art Schools' Folklore Project St Bartholomew

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