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Still in pursuit of St Gobnait

16th January 2022 8 Comments

This post may only be of interest to serious St Gobnait devotees! Whilst limited by lockdown I researched, virtually and whenever possible in the field, the peregrination of St Gobnait as she went in search of the site of her resurrection – identifiable by nine white deer. From setting out on the Aran Islands where […]

Filed Under: Limerick Tagged With: ash tree Deborah deer Eyes faction fighting Kilmallock pattern day peregrination pilgrimage Schools' Folklore Project St Gobnait white deer

Well Hunting in the time of Covid

17th December 2021 3 Comments

The last two years have been most strange and disconcerting, and we’re not out of the woods yet. Well hunting has been severely curtailed but I thought it might be interesting to do a quick round up of some of the wells visited during the moments lockdown was lifted. A trip to North Kerry in […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Asdee Ballybunion Brosna Caherdaniel Castletownbere Covid19 Eyes Glenbeigh Glendalough golden trout Lockdown New Zealand peregrination pilgrimage Pupu springs Rheumatism sacred lake St Crohane St Finian Cam St Gobnait St John St Kevin St Killian St Moling Tralee

Enchantment around Myrtleville

27th November 2021 10 Comments

I always love being invited to see a well. Deirdre contacted me during the first severe lockdown and explained that she had beaten a track to a holy well at Gortigrenane, within her 5km! She was delighted to have found the well, still flowing, and sent me some photographs, offering to take me there when […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: boar buttermaking Conal Maol Connall Cearnach Cú Cuchulain Diarmuid & Grainne Eyes Ferdia Finn mac Cumhaill firkins fulacht fiadh Gleann na Muice Duibhe gortigrenane Myrtleville Riverstick Schools' Folklore Project

In the Wake of St Finán

4th July 2021 12 Comments

How nice to be out and about in County Kerry after a long enforced lockdown due to Covid-19. We spent a few days in Waterville on the Iveragh Peninsula mainly in pursuit of St Finán Cam. This elusive and complex saint is fascinating and may need a blog to himself at some point for he […]

Filed Under: Iveragh Peninsula Tagged With: Caherlehillan Church Island cross slabs Eyes leacht Lough Currane Lough Luíoch oratory pilgrimage quartz Schools' Folklore Project shrine St Finán St Finnian trout UCC Waterville

An Turas: in the footsteps of St Crohane

28th June 2021 14 Comments

Tobar an Bhile, St Crohane’s Well near Castle Cove on the Ring of Kerry was the well that originally sparked my interest in Irish holy wells. Way back on the 30th July 1998 (I remember the date exactly as it was my son’s 18th birthday) I left our holiday home in the lashing rain to […]

Filed Under: Iveragh Peninsula Tagged With: blessed tree butter route Castle Cove Charles Smith Coad Mountain copper mines Eagle Hill Eyes hermitage Kerry Way Lunasa Mass Rock pattern pilgrimage Ring of Kerry Samuel Lewis Schools' Folklore Project St Crohane The Book of the Skelligs turas Windy Gap

St Kevin’s Holy Well, Glendalough

3rd June 2021 19 Comments

Enjoying a few days in County Wicklow, we visited the magical site that is Glendalough. A place of outstanding natural beauty, it comprises a lush valley, surrounded by mountains and two lakes, the perfect place for a wild hike – or a hermitage. It is also rich in an incredible variety of historic and religious […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: blackbird bullaun Clive Hicks Jenkins County Wicklow deer stone Eyes Glendalough Headaches hermit Lennox Barrow pilgrimage rag tree round tower rounds Schools' Folklore Project Seamus Heaney

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